Sexual harassment case: Child rights panel issues notice to SSP, school principal

The Punjab State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has issued a notice to the Mohali Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and the principal of the Phase 6 school from where an alleged incident of sexual harassment of minor schoolgirls had come to the light on Wednesday.

The commission has asked the SSP to provide information and action taken in the case and present the Investigating Officer before it on December 2.

The school principal, too, has been asked to appear before the commission.

The commission has recommended strict action against the guilty persons.

Meanwhile, the suspect was produced in the court and sent to one-day police remand.

A case under the POCSO Act has been registered against him at the Phase 1 police station.

The police had yesterday arrested the teacher on the charge of showing obscene videos to minor girls and “touching them with bad intention”.

In a complaint to the Phase 1 police station SHO, the parents of five Class II to V students, had demanded a “strict legal action against the teacher and the school”.

They alleged that “the teacher had been taking the girls to the basement of the building, showing them obscene videos and touching them on chest and back for the past four days”.

They added the school did not sack the teacher despite their complaints and when they went to the school, they saw accused teacher present in the assembly.

The agitated parents reached the police post and the cops called the accused teacher and the principal for investigation.