Telangana schoolteacher arrested for raping 11 minor girls over 2 years

Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, March 7

The Wanaparthy police have arrested a 27-year-old schoolteacher on charges of raping 11 minor girls over the past two years, who he was coaching at his house for admission to government-run gurukul schools.

All girls are of the age 10 to 11 and students of Class 4.

Police have registered a case of rape and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

The matter came to light when the grandmother of one of the girls saw blood stains on her clothes and enquired the matter.  She lodged a complaint with the police leading to the arrest and confession by the teacher who was employed in a private school and also coached the girls in English for entrance to government schools.

DSP Kiran Kumar said the offence was highlighted when another girl complained of a health problem and wanted to visit the doctor. The girl told her parents that she was raped by the schoolteacher. Based on the information given by this victim, her parents came to know that there is another girl, who too was abused by him.

The case has been registered on the complaint of these two girls. The police are trying to locate the other victims based on the confession of the teacher.

Kumar said the police was shocked when the teacher confessed to raping nine other girls over the past two years, but said he could not remember their identity. Some of the girls were raped on the school premises.

The police said investigation revealed that the accused used to ask the girl student he targeted to stay back after school. When all the students and staff members left, he used to abuse the girl. Some survivors were abused by him at his aunt’s house, where he stays and gives tuition.

Some victims were repeatedly raped by the accused, who hails from Nagarkurnool, but moved to Wanaparthy in 2018.