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A 15-year-old miss successful Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur territory ended her beingness connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) aft accusing the main of a backstage schoolhouse she was studying successful of sexually harassing her, said the police.
The miss was recovered wrong a survey country connected the premises of the backstage school. She has near a enactment successful which she has mentioned the word “bad touch” and that she was sexually assaulted by the schoolhouse main astir a week ago, said Jashpur Senior Superintendent of Police Shashi Mohan Singh.
The main has been arrested.
“We received accusation that a pupil had died by termination successful a backstage higher secondary school. A constabulary and FSL squad reached the spot and investigations were taken up. During search, a enactment was recovered from her according to which the schoolhouse main utilized to sexually harass her owed to which she was ending her life,” Mr. Singh told journalists earlier.
Speaking to The Hindu later, helium said the probe had besides revealed that the survey country was being utilized arsenic a hostel illegally successful the school. The purported intersexual battle happened erstwhile the miss was cleaning 1 of the rooms and past threatened her that she would beryllium expelled if she revealed it to anyone, it is further learnt.
The miss had disclosed the incidental to her friends and it was being probed whether her parents oregon different teachers were alert too, said Mr. Singh.
The schoolhouse main has been booked nether Sections 108 (punishment for abetment of termination of a kid oregon idiosyncratic of an unsound mind), 74 (Assault oregon transgression unit to pistillate with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023, Section 8 (Punishment for intersexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012) and Section 75 (Punishment for cruelty to a child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and arrested, said Mr. Singh.
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