No CCTV cameras, complaint box on premises: SIT head

THE CASE

HISAR:THE ongoing police investigation in the sodomy cases reported at a school in Rohtak has revealed that the institute was functioning in a clear violation of the guidelines laid by the state government that had made it mandatory for schools in Haryana to have CCTV cameras covering the entire premises.

“The school did not have CCTV cameras, barring one at the entrance,” said DSP Narain Chand, who is heading the SIT formed in the case. He said the school authorities had not installed any complaint boxes as well as per the directions of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

“We have so far arrested two persons, including a teacher, and detained six children. The children have been sent to observation home in Hisar.

Few more names have also come to the fore during our probe and we have started investigating The matter first came to light when one of the victims complained about the abuse to his parents, who had come to meet him on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan on

Sunday. Four others also came up with similar stories after the boy’s mother raised an outcry in the school. “Sodomy was indicated in two of the five victims who were sexually assaulted,” a surgeon, who was part of the team that conducted the examination at the civil hospital, had said on Monday.

their roles in the case,” DSP said.

He said his team will interrogate the school management about the security lapse.

The Juvenile Justice Board has also taken cognisance of the matter.

Meanwhile, as per the sources, more complaints alleging physical abuse have poured in.