School head arrested in India after girl, 6, raped
Charged with hindering probe and negligence
NEW DELHI, July 23, (AP): The head of a school in southern India where a 6-year-old girl was raped earlier this month was arrested on Wednesday and charged with hindering the investigation and negligence, police said.
M.N. Reddi, the top police official in Bangalore city, told reporters that Rustom Kerawalla, the chairman of VIBGYOR High school, was charged with negligence for failing to ensure the student’s safety.
Reddi gave no details on how Kerawalla hindered the investigation into the July 2 assault that happened when the girl left her classroom to go to the restroom. Kerawalla made no statement to media as he was being led away by police.
Earlier this week police arrested the school’s skating chapatis being served were too hard.
“This was only a protest against the quality of food and other arrangements at the Maharashtra Sadan (guest house) where all the important dignitaries come and stay,” Vichare told Headlines Today news channel.
“The canteen management here is in a bad state. The cha- instructor and charged him with attacking the child. The instructor had been teaching at the school since 2011, and Reddi said the school performed no background check while hiring him. News reports have said that the instructor had been fired from a previous job for “inappropriate” behavior with female students.
Police said that the girl was recovering from the attack.
Over the weekend, parents and relatives of children who attend the school in Bangalore, India’s technology hub, shouted slogans against the school’s administration and demanded that police act swiftly against those involved in the assault, which was reported only last week. patis they made didn’t even break, the quality of vegetables and pulses is bad.” “Making this a religious issue doesn’t make sense,” he said. The catering company’s general manager said the supervisor had been “deeply pained and hurt” over the incident as “religious sentiments are attached”.