Pvt tutor arrested for sexual abuse of minor siblings
THE ACCUSED HAILS FROM BIHAR, IS UNMARRIED AND STAYS IN A RENTED
ROOM, WHERE HE TEACHES OTHER CHILDREN
GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad police on Saturday arrested a 31-year-old tutor on charges of sexually assaulting a six-yearold girl and her seven-year-old brother.
The family said the children have been taking private tuitions from the accused for the last one year.
The accused was identified as Dheeraj and is reported to be a sports coach at a school in Muradnagar in Ghaziabad.
The police said they have booked him under the Indian Penal Code sections for rape (376), unnatural sex (377) and criminal intimidation (506) and also under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act at the Indirapuram police station.
“The accused was arrested after we received a complaint from the children’s family. The accused had been assaulting the girl for past several days and the boy for the past several months. They told their family about the abuse on Saturday and the family filed a complaint,” Ravi Kumar, assistant superintendent of police (Indirapuram), said.
The maternal uncle of the children said,“the boy had been taking tuitions from him since class 1 and he is now in class 2, while the girl is in class 1. He tried telling us on Thursday that the teacher subjected him to unnatural offences for the past several months, but we did not quite understand him. On Friday, the girl complained of severe pain in the abdomen and we took her to a local health centre. There, the doctors told us that the kids may have been sexually assaulted.”
The family said the accused tutor, who hails from Bihar, is unmarried and stays in a rented room in their locality, where he teaches other children too.
After the girl gathered courage to tell her maternal aunt on Saturday about the sexual assault, the boy also told us in detail about the abuse he was subjected to. We immediately approached police and filed an FIR,” he added.
Police said their father died six years ago due to an ailment and the children were staying with their mother at the maternal grandmother’s house.
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