GD Birla sexual assault: Arrested teachers sent to police custody till Monday
Kolkata, Dec 2 (IBNS): Two teachers of Kolkata's GD Birla school, who are accused of sexualy assaulting a four-year-old girl student of the same school, were produced in a local court at Alipore on Saturday and they were sent to two-day police remand, reports said.
After hour-long interrogation at Jadavpur Police Station, two physical education teachers of south Kolkata's GD Brila school, Avishek Roy and Md. Mafizuddin, were arrested on Friday night for their alleged role in sexualy abusing a lower nursery student inside the school premise.
According to police reports, they have been charged under sections 4 and 6 of POCSO Act.
"The duo was produced before a special vacational court on Saturday and they were sent to police custody for two days," a police official told IBNS.
"The accused will be produced before a POCSO court at Alipore on Monday," the officer added.
Meanwhile, the three-member-committee, which was formed by the state education department on Friday to look into the matter, submitted its primary report before the government on Saturday, officials said.
"It's clearly mentioned in the report that the school does not have proper infrastructure and adequate security arrangements," a source in the state education board told IBNS.
The Kolkata Police on Friday evening arrested two teachers of city's GD Birla school for allegedly sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl student inside the school premise, officials said.
A senior official of city police told IBNS that the victim child had identified the accused.
The four-year-old student of GD Birla school's lower nursery section has been released from SSKM hospital on Friday evening.
The incident occurred at the school named GD Birla Centre for Education, located in Ranikuthi, in the southern part of the city.
The parents have alleged that the child returned home crying and with blood stains on her dress; later the mother also found her bleeding from her private parts.
The child was allegedly abused inside a school toilet, media reported.
Reportedly, the child has identified a physical education teacher of the school -- from a photo -- as the one who assaulted her.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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