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Five School Teachers Held in Odisha for 'Raping' 13-Year-Old Girl
The arrests followed complaints from the victim's father and child welfare committee after a 48-hour investigation into long-term abuse allegations.
- On Saturday, police in Kendrapara district arrested four teachers and a peon from a private English-medium school, naming five people in an FIR over alleged repeated rape of a 13-year-old class 7 student.
- After the girl told her mother last month, the family approached the Child Welfare Committee, which received a complaint on February 18 and visited the school the next day.
- Rajkanika police registered the case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and POCSO, and the accused were arrested following a preliminary investigation, with the matter under the Swift Trial Initiative.
- The girl's statement was recorded in accordance with legal provisions, the minor and the accused underwent medical examinations at the district headquarters hospital, and the accused were produced before the local court and remanded with forwarding scheduled for Sunday.
- The family alleges the school failed to act, and some teachers shielded the accused, while Minati Rout, BJD leader, met the family on Saturday, and the panel referred the case to police.
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Odisha: 5 school teachers held for 'raping' 13-year-old student
Kendrapara: A total of five teachers of a private school were arrested on Saturday, February 21, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, police said. The arrests were made after the father of the class 7 student and the district child welfare committee lodged separate complaints at the Rajkanika police station, alleging that the accused teachers had raped the minor, a senior officer said. The parents of the stude…
Five school teachers held in Odisha for 'raping' 13-year-old girl
The arrests were made after the father of the class 7 student and the district child welfare committee lodged separate complaints at the Rajkanika police station, alleging that the accused teachers had raped the minor, a senior officer said.
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