The 52-year-old principal of a authorities aided school in Ghaziabad was booked late Tuesday night time on costs sexually harassing woman college students of the school, cops mentioned, including that the suspect principal in flip acquired an FIR registered alleging {that a} mob, led by a lady councillor of the Ghaziabad municipal company, bodily assaulted him on the school premises, inflicting him accidents.
The alleged harassment occurred at a better secondary school underneath the jurisdiction of Wave Metropolis police station on Tuesday. Police mentioned the primary FIR was lodged late Tuesday night time on a criticism by mother and father of 5 woman college students of Class 9, accusing the school principal of sexually harassing their girls.
The mother and father of their criticism mentioned the principal made inappropriate advances in direction of the girls and in addition touched them in appropriately after calling them to his workplace on one pretext or the opposite.
The principal, whose identify is being withheld to guard the id of the girls, was booked underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 354a (sexual harassment) and 506 (legal intimidation), senior officers mentioned.
They mentioned the second FIR was lodged on Wednesday in opposition to a lady councillor, her two accomplices, two armed guards, an unidentified lady and 50-60 different unidentified individuals.
The FIR was lodged underneath IPC sections 307 (try and homicide), 332 (inflicting damage to discourage public servant from his responsibility), 353 (assault or legal pressure to discourage public servant from discharge of his responsibility), 324 (inflicting damage by harmful weapons or means), 147 (rioting) and 120b (legal conspiracy).
“The primary FIR was lodged in reference to criticism given by mother and father of 5 girls.They had been accompanied by different mother and father as nicely. The second FIR was lodged in opposition to the native councillor and others for allegedly thrashing the principal after the girls complained. We’re investigating all the sequence of occasions and CCTV footage from the school shall be seen for additional proof. The principal additionally suffered accidents and was despatched for medical help and examination,” mentioned Vivek Chandra Yadav, deputy commissioner of police (rural).
When contacted, the councillor mentioned the girls had been being harassed by the principal for fairly a while and he allegedly threatened them into silence.
“These are girls of courses 7, 8, 9 and 10 they usually complained that the principal would name them to his workplace and proceed to the touch them inappropriately. Their mother and father approached me on Tuesday and the locals had been additionally outraged after they acquired to know concerning the harassment. I went to the school and tried speaking to the scholars there. The principal began misbehaving with me. Seeing this, mother and father and locals entered the school and thrashed the principal in anger,” the councillor mentioned.
The principal additionally gave a criticism to the police that the councillor forcibly entered the school along with her accomplices and made the girls signal a couple of papers unmindful of his objections.
“About 50-60 unidentified individuals entered the school they usually together with councillor’s aides attacked me. This attacked was a deliberate one as I didn’t entertain any faux admissions within the school,” the suspect mentioned in his criticism.
HT tried reaching the principal, however he was unavailable to take calls. His son, nonetheless, denied the allegations of sexual harassment.
“My father suffered accidents and was taken to the hospital for remedy. The police investigation is on,” he mentioned.
The officers of the district schooling division mentioned they’ve sought an inquiry report from the school.
“The school is authorities aided and a report has been sought in reference to the allegations levelled by the woman college students. The police have registered an FIR on this connection and are investigating the matter,” mentioned Rajesh Kumar Srivas, district inspector of faculties.
