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The General Education section has dismissed K. Padmarajan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person and schoolhouse teacher sentenced to beingness imprisonment successful Palathayi POCSO case, from service. The schoolhouse absorption issued the dismissal bid pursuing acquisition from the department.
Padmarajan was sentenced by the Thalassery Protection of Children Sexual Offences (POCSO) court to imprisonment until decease for sexually assaulting a Class IV pupil successful the schoolhouse bath during January and February 2020 and imposed a good of ₹1 lakh. The case, which progressive charges of rape underSection 376 AB of the IPC and aggregate POCSO provisions, had triggered important governmental controversy. The tribunal besides sentenced him to 40 years of imprisonment (20 years each nether abstracted POCSO counts) and an further ₹1 lakh arsenic fine.
The tribunal had recovered Padmarajan blameworthy of offences that transportation a maximum punishment of 20 years to beingness imprisonment. The lawsuit had drawn attraction aft the probe squad was changed 5 clip and interim complaint expanse omitted POCSO sections, starring to governmental debate.
