Teacher gets 5-year jail term for molesting four girl students

A unique Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) courtroom docket withinside the metropolis convicted a trainer for molesting at the least 4 minor women and sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment on Tuesday. According to the prosecution, the incident got here to mild on March 4, 2016, whilst the mom of female students – analyzing in Class V and Class VI – observed that her daughters had now no longer eaten tiffin at college and one in every of them seemed panic-stricken. When the mom requested her daughter, she discovered that one in every of their male instructors had molested them in college.

The lady additionally learnt that the trainer had misbehaved together along with her different daughter as well, tomorrow she went to the college and submitted a written grievance to the college authorities. She additionally enquired with the dad and mom of different youngsters analyzing on the college, which falls beneathneath the jurisdiction of the Sion police station. On March 11, 2016, the lady approached the Sion police and lodged a grievance. She got here to understand that comparable proceedings of molestation are registered towards the trainer on the police station, however the college had now no longer taken any action. Based at the grievance, the police registered an FIR and booked the trainer – a Kalyan resident – beneathneath applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

At least 4 female students, consisting of the 2 sisters, testified earlier than the courtroom docket and discovered how the English and Science trainer misbehaved with them. Besides, the prosecution additionally tested the college major and every other trainer from the college and the law enforcement officials who investigated the case, to carry domestic the guilt of the accused.

The defence contended that the allegations had been vague, as unique dates and instances of the incidents aren’t noted via way of means of the women or different witnesses and the proceedings had been lodged belatedly. The unique courtroom docket ordinary the prosecution case and convicted the trainer for molesting the minor female students.

It rejected the defence, watching that conviction in sexual offences may be primarily based totally completely at the testimony of survivors. “The sufferers have defined the acts of the accused touching them inappropriately on numerous activities in detail,” stated the courtroom docket.

It additionally rejected the declare of not on time registration of the FIR towards him saying, “Delay in accommodations the FIR can not be used as a ritualistic formulation for doubting the prosecution case and discarding the equal completely at the floor of put off in accommodations the primary facts report.”