According to police, the subsister had stopped attending classes successful aboriginal January.
Three teachers from a authorities schoolhouse successful Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri territory person been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old pupil connected campus. The incident, which took spot successful aboriginal January, came to airy lone erstwhile schoolhouse authorities visited the girl’s location to inquire astir her prolonged absence.
According to police, the subsister had stopped attending classes successful aboriginal January. When a squad of teachers visited her home, she complained of ulcers.
On Monday, erstwhile the schoolhouse headmistress and a teacher visited her location again, the miss disclosed that she had been sexually assaulted by 3 teachers successful a schoolhouse toilet betwixt January 1 and 3. Her mother, accompanied by the headmistress and a teacher, approached the constabulary and lodged a complaint, starring to the arrests.
Krishnagiri Superintendent of Police P Thangadurai said that the accused, aged 57, 48, and 37, were taken into custody and charged nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. They person besides been suspended from service.
The subsister was taken to infirmary for a aesculapian introspection and intelligence counselling.
Krishnagiri District Collector C Dinesh Kumar dismissed rumours that an termination was performed and said that she was not pregnant.
The incidental has triggered protests successful the area, with section residents and the girl’s relatives demanding strict enactment against the accused. On Wednesday, an aggravated assemblage staged a roadworthy blockade extracurricular the school. Police unit were deployed to negociate the situation, and authorities assured that ineligible enactment would beryllium taken.
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The incidental has led to beardown governmental reactions, with Opposition leaders blaming the authorities authorities for failing to support students. AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K Palaniswami criticised the DMK government, saying, “When I raised concerns astir pupil information successful authorities schools, the authorities dismissed them. What volition they accidental now?”
BJP authorities president K Annamalai linked the emergence successful intersexual crimes to governance failures and pointed to a diminution successful arrests nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act arsenic grounds of instrumentality enforcement lapses. AMMK person TTV Dhinakaran besides cited different caller cases of intersexual battle successful Tamil Nadu and called for stricter monitoring successful schools.
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