Janakpuri teacher held in 3-year-old girl’s rape case

A pistillate teacher astatine a backstage schoolhouse successful westbound Delhi’s Janakpuri has been arrested and remanded successful one-day judicial custody successful transportation with rape of a three-year-old miss pupil by a 57-year-old caretaker, the constabulary said connected Thursday.

The incidental came to airy aft the girl’s parent filed a ailment connected May 1, pursuing which an FIR was registered. While constabulary are probing the teacher’s relation successful the case, the child’s household and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person alleged that she had taken the miss to the basement wherever the rape allegedly took place.

AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said the apprehension was a “step successful the close direction” arsenic the miss had told her household astir the teacher’s involvement. He besides questioned the bail granted to the caretaker, saying he wielded powerfulness wrong the school. The authorities has warned that it could instrumentality implicit the school’s absorption if “lapses” are recovered successful its functioning. Officials said they are conducting inspections.