Class ten girl student gang-raped in Dehradun Boarding school, nine, including four students held
Dehradun, Sept 18 (IBNS) : Nine people, including four minor boys were arrested on Monday in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a class ten girl student of a boarding school, media reports said.
Among those arrested are five members of the school administration - the director, the principal, an administrative officer along with his wife, and a hostel caretaker — all named in the FIR.
The minors, held for allegedly being involved in the crime, were presented before the Juvenile Justice Board,while the five others were arrested on the charges of hushing up the crime by trying to conceal the facts.
While the gangrape allegedly happened on August 14, a preliminary investigation in the case was ordered by the Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Nivedita Kukreti, on Sunday, after she received information about the incident.
The girl was allegedly gangraped by four senior students of class twelve of the same school.
“The girl did inform the school administration about the gangrape by the four boys and the pregnancy, but instead of informing the police and the family of the girl, the school administration gave her various medications to end the pregnancy. The school officials later took the girl to a nursing home for an abortion,” a police official said, adding that the school administration had put “immense pressure on the girl so that she doesn’t tell anyone about the incident," The Indian Express quoted a police official as saying.
On Sunday, a team of the Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (USCPCR) led by chairperson Usha Negi and members of the commission Sharda Tripathi and Seema Dora went to meet the girl, and after their intervention, an FIR was registered in the case at Sahaspur police station.
"After the girl informed the school administration about the the incident, she was given various types of drinks for termminating the pregnancy. We have learnt that the medicated drinks were given to her by the administrator and his wife, who, instead of reporting the matter to the police were busy trying to hush it up,” The Times of India quoted Negi as saying. .
On Monday, an FIR was registered against nine persons under sections 376 D (gang-rape), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, a police official said.
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