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Jind (Haryana) – A principal of a Haryana Government school in Jind District was arrested for sexual harassment of more than 50 female students. Police said on Sunday. “We have received 60 written complaints against the principal from the students, Out of which more than 50 complaints are from girls who claimed to have been abused physically at the hands of the accused. Ten other girls, in their complaint, said they knew the principal was into such things,” the State Commission for Women’s chairperson Renu Bhatia had said.
The Police registered a case against the school principal under Sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code and under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
| Editorial Perspective
If the teachers themselves commit such acts then whom can the parents trust? Only if such people are hanged will others be fearful of committing such acts. |
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