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The Srirampura Police person arrested a 59-year-old headmaster of a authorities higher superior schoolhouse successful Bengaluru nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, for for allegedly impregnating a insignificant student.
The accused, identified arsenic Chandraiah, has been serving arsenic the headmaster of a authorities schoolhouse successful Srirampura. According to police, the alleged maltreatment had been taking spot implicit the past year. The lawsuit came to airy aft the pupil was recovered to beryllium astir one-and-a-half months pregnant.
Based connected a ailment filed by the girl’s family, the Srirampura constabulary registered an FIR connected May 22, 2026, nether applicable sections of the POCSO Act, 2012. The accused was arrested and remanded successful to judicial custody.
Police said the subsister has been provided aesculapian attraction and counselling support. Members of the Child Welfare Committee, Bengaluru North, person temporarily shifted the miss to a authorities rehabilitation installation connected Hosur Road for attraction and extortion during the investigation.
Officials said the District Child Protection Unit has besides been instructed to coordinate with constabulary and guarantee due enactment measures for the child.
A kid who escaped
In a abstracted incidental reported earlier this twelvemonth successful Bengaluru’s Byatarayanapura area, a insignificant pupil alerted her household aft allegedly escaping an attempted intersexual battle by a carnal acquisition teacher wrong a authorities schoolhouse premises.
According to constabulary sources, the pupil was playing connected the schoolhouse field erstwhile the accused teacher allegedly called her to the auditorium aft different unit members had near for the day. Investigators said the teacher allegedly sent different children location and locked the auditorium earlier attempting to battle the girl.
Sensing danger, the pupil resisted, managed to flight from the spot and aboriginal informed her household astir the incident. Her household subsequently approached the constabulary and filed a complaint.
Police said the accused teacher, who was moving connected a declaration basis, was aboriginal suspended pursuing a ailment filed by the family. Authorities and a city-based NGO had extended enactment to the student, portion constabulary officials commended her beingness of caput and assured assistance for her education.
