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Topper earlier, sudden dip in his performance spilled the beans

CHANDIGARH: The 15-year-old victim, who was being sexually exploited by his tutor for over two months, was among the toppers in Class VIII.



Ishrat S Banwait

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 24

The 15-year-old victim, who was being sexually exploited by his tutor for over two months, was among the toppers in Class VIII. However, the just declared Class IX results came as a shock for the family as the victim just managed to pass. The dip in his performance may have actually saved him from further going through the ordeal.

The victim told counsellors that he was not aware whether what was happening with him was right or wrong. He was just following his teacher’s instructions.

The father of the victim, who sells fruit on a footpath, said his son had always been brilliant at school. Recognising that he may require tuitions as he was now in Class IX, they approached Raj Kamal Devi in September 2017 for giving tuitions to the victim in science and mathematics, along with his sister, who was in Class V at that time.

A few days later, Raj Kamal called up the victim’s mother and told her to send her daughter elsewhere for tuitions saying that the brother-sister duo did not concentrate on the studies together. The parents were more than happy at the concern expressed by the teacher and did the same.

However, they did notice that Raj Kamal was getting possessive about their son. She would call them up if the victim would miss his tuitions and once when he went on a school trip, she kept calling the parents to enquire about him. His father said, “She had us in confidence and we had started believing her blindly for the sake of our son’s future”.

Flunking test at school led to withdrawal of tuitions

Instead of improving due to the tuitions, their son’s performance started plunging. Recently, the parents of the victim were called to the school by the class teacher. She informed them that their son had scored just 5.5 out of 15 in a test while he used to score full marks in the past. On being asked, the parents informed about the tuitions, which the class teacher asked them to withdraw immediately.

This episode, coupled with the possessiveness of Raj Kamal that made them uncomfortable, made the parents withdraw the tuitions a few days ago. However, Raj Kamal kept trying to convince them to send the victim back. On Tuesday, the family was called home by Raj Kamal. When they went there, she locked the victim in a room and refused to let him go. She went on to say that she could not live without the victim and neither could he. She even asked her husband to stay away as he tried to intervene. 

She said she would sleep with the victim and do whatever she wanted and that they could do nothing to separate them.

The parents called the neighbours, who helped them take the child away. Raj Kamal followed them, entered their home and emptied a bottle lying in their washroom. 

The police were called and Raj Kamal tried to tell the police that the family was harassing the boy and spreading rumours about her. Both parties were taken to a police station as the parents of the victim, till then unaware about the sexual assault, wanted to reach a compromise. However, the involvement of Childline brought the actual story to light. 

My son was depressed, we haven’t been able to eat: Father

  • Still in shock, the victim’s father kept repeating that they blindly trusted the teacher and that no one should ever do that. He said they were noticing that their son was depressed and had stopped talking to them. “He had stopped going out to play and would keep chatting on his phone,” he said. He said his wife was still in shock and both of them had not been able to eat since Tuesday’s episode. 
  • The victim’s father said once they caught their son chatting late at night and ignored it when they learnt that he was talking to his tuition teacher. However, the next day, Raj Kamal came home and deleted messages from his phone while it was in his mother’s possession. Raj Kamal was friends with the victim’s mother and on being asked, she said she was just trying to teach her how to use the phone. 
  • The victim’s father said his son was still scared, but was getting better now. 

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