School teacher gets 25yr jail for raping student

THE 14-YR-OLD GIRL WAS RAPED IN SCHOOL PREMISES IN 2019

KARNAL: A special court for crime against women and POCSO Act in Kaithal has sentenced a private school teacher to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 14-year-old girl student.

Additional Sessions Judge Poonam Suneja also imposed a fine of ₹ 80,000 on the convict and directed to provide a compensation of ₹ 4.5 lakh to the victim through District Legal Services Authority. As per the police investigation, the Kaithal police had registered the FIR on the complaint of the victim’s mother. The class IX student, in her statement, had accused the teacher, Anil Kumar, of raping her in the school premises in 2019. He was booked under sections 376 (3), 506 of the IPC and section 6 of POCSO and 67 B of the IT Act.