The Asian Age

Student threatens to rape teacher, daughter on FB

Another student emails teacher offering candleligh­t date, sex

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Gurgaon, Feb. 21: A 13year- old Class 7 student of an elite Gurgaon school threatened to rape one of his teachers and her minor daughter in a post on social media site Facebook rattling the institutio­n’s administra­tion.

Disturbing­ly, this is not the only incident of delinquent behaviour that the upscale school is faced with as another one of its teenaged students emailed a teacher offering joyride, candleligh­t date and sex.

Both incidents happened last week, sources said.

The sheer vulgarity of the Facebook post has shocked the family of the teacher and her minor daughter, who undergoing mental trauma, has not attended classes since, they said. The teacher’s

daughter is learnt to be the accused student’s classmate, they added. Her equally agonised mother, however, has managed to rejoin, sources said. Taking note of the seriousnes­s of the incidents, the district Child Welfare Committee has decided to issue a notice to the school and is mulling counsellin­g sections for the children as well as school authoritie­s.

According to sources, the school authoritie­s are already examining the incidents following complaints by the teachers.

The school has a zero- tolerance policy towards such acts and a suitable course of action is being considered, according to a source. District Child Welfare Committee chairperso­n Shakuntala Dhull said ‘ suo motu’ cognizance of the incidents had been taken.

“A notice will be sent to the school and the children. They will be called for questionin­g. Counsellin­g sessions will be held for the school authoritie­s, including the teachers and kids,” she said. Gurgaon police PRO Ravinder Kumar told PTI, “We are aware about reports of such incidents but have not yet received any complaint from the victims seeking a probe.”

This is not the first time that a top school in the millenium city has made headlines for the wrong reasons. In a widely publicised case, a seven- yearstuden­t was found killed, with his throat slit, in Gurgaon’s Ryan Internatio­nal School. The CBI, which is probing the case, had arrested a Class 11 student of the same school for the alleged killing.

◗ The sheer vulgarity of the Facebook post has shocked the family of the teacher and her minor daughter, who is undergoing mental trauma and has not attended classes since

◗ District Child Welfare Committee chairperso­n Shakuntala Dhull said ‘ suo motu’ cognisance of the incidents had been taken

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