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Mumbai News: Arabic teacher arrested for allegedly molesting girl 10 years ago

Mumbai News: Arabic teacher arrested for allegedly molesting girl 10 years ago

A 17-year-old student of a Mumbai school revealed during a counseling session that she allegedly was molested by an Arabic teacher ten years ago.

A case was filed against the accused on Thursday in response to a complaint from the school where the victim studies in Class XII, an officer of the Powai police station said on Saturday.

The police arrested the accused just four hours after the case was registered.

“The girl told a counseling session that a teacher came to her house to teach Arabic. If she didn’t do her homework, the defendant touched her improperly. The girl said that these incidents occurred when she was 6-8 years old,” the official said.

The accused has been charged under the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act.

In a separate case, a teacher was arrested for alleged bullying sexual assault a Class IX tribal student from a boarding school in Gujarat’s Dahod district, a police official said on Saturday.

The incident took place at a tribal boarding school in Khalta village and the accused was identified as Kalpesh Baria, a Dhanpur police official said.

“On Thursday evening, Baria called a 17-year-old student to his quarters in the Khalta ashram campus on the pretext of cooking for him and made sexual propositions. He also grabbed her from behind. She managed to leave the place only after she called her sister there,” the official said.

“When her siblings, who study at the same school, learned about her plight, they informed her father. The family filed a complaint against Baria on Friday and he was arrested soon after, he said.

Baria was charged under Art. 75 section 1 letter i) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit propositions of a sexual nature), Art. 8 (sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The ashramshala is managed by the state social welfare department.