Sodomy accused teacher gets judicial remand

Tribune News Service

Karnal, October 16

The Indri police have arrested Shishanpal, a Sanskrit teacher at Government Senior Secondary School for Boys at Indri, for allegedly sodomising two students of Class IX.

Rajiv Kumar, SHO, Indri, said that Shishanpal was arrested on Saturday and he was produced in a court which sent him in judicial custody yesterday.

The police had booked him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on October 12 for sexually assaulting two students in a private hospital in Karnal on September 27.

After the incident, a team comprising Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Right member Paramjeet Singh Badola, Child Welfare Committee Chairman Surinder Singh Mann and District Child Protection Officer Reena Kadyan visited the school and inquired into the matter.

During counselling, the students revealed that they were part of a group which was to participate in cultural activities in Karnal on September 27 and 28 under the supervision of Shishanpal and he took them to Karnal on September 26.

After the cultural activities on September 27, Shishanpal took the students to a private hospital where he allegedly sodomised them.