Tamil Nadu private school correspondent held for alleged sexual abuse of students

The Indian Express | 3 days ago | 25-11-2022 | 05:40 pm

The Chennai police Thursday arrested a correspondent of a private school in Tamil Nadu’s Thirunindravur after the parents of a Class XII student lodged a complaint accusing the man of allegedly sexually abusing their daughter under the pretext of offering counselling.An officer attached to the Avadi Police Commissionerate told indianexpress.com that based on the information that the man would be reaching Tamil Nadu from Goa on Thursday the police nabbed him at the Chennai airport.The students and parents staged a sit-in on the school premises on Wednesday demanding action against the correspondent, who had also sexually abused many girls of the school. They claimed that the management was trying to shield the accused and raised slogans demanding justice.“He was in Goa. He used to visit there every year to participate in some festival. He did not make any contact with his wife or other members. We suspected that he would be in Goa so a team reached there and conducted an inquiry. Meanwhile, he released a video saying that he is going to end his life. His wife had gone to Goa to meet him. We picked him from near the parking lot on Thursday night,” the officer noted.Senior police officials, members from the district education department, and the Child Welfare Committee reached the school and conducted an inquiry.The correspondent took charge of his duties only from June, police said. According to police, the students informed them that the correspondent touched a Class XII girl inappropriately and it happened to others as well. After the police registered a case and promised to take immediate action, the parents and students withdrew their protest.The school is likely to be closed for a couple of days.

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Times of India | 1 day ago | 28-11-2022 | 04:05 am

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Panaji: Fourteen years after a woman was accused of producing a forged SSCE marksheet and related documents before the passport authority in Panaji, a Panaji court has acquitted her for the offences after the prosecution “miserably failed” to prove its case.“The making of the false document is the basic ingredient of the offence of forgery. In the present case, the prosecution has miserably failed to prove the role of the accused in making a false document,” stated chief judicial magistrate, A Court, Panaji, Ram S Prabhu Dessai.The court found that the SSCE marksheet and school leaving certificate were not sent for scientific examination, and added that the investigating officer didn’t carry out any investigation in respect to the paper used for the marksheet, as well as the ink and machinery used to commit the offence.“…there is absolutely no investigation done so far as making of the false document is concerned. Although the investigating officer was aware that custodian of the blank marksheet was the director of education, the investigating officer deemed it fit not to investigate in that direction,” the court stated.The woman had allegedly produced a forged SSCE marksheet, passing certificate of Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education and a school leaving certificate before the passport authority to avail passport facilities through a travel agent.“It appears that the entire investigation is done by the investigating officer under the pre-supposition that the accused has forged the said documents,” the court added.From the evidence of the passport officer, the court found that the investigating officer collected documents from the passport office without conducting a panchanama.Advocate G Teles, representing the accused, submitted that the passport officer along with the travel agent are in connivance in issuing passports and that there is every possibility that the travel agent might have obtained the woman’s signatures on the form and arranged the forged documents without the knowledge of the accused by charging fees.

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Times of India | 1 day ago | 27-11-2022 | 11:50 pm

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1 day ago | 27-11-2022 | 11:50 pm

Panaji: The traffic cell of Goa police has instructed the directorate of education to furnish details of children’s transportation committees of all North Goa schools. Deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Siddhant Shirodkar, in a letter, appraised the director of education that as per sub-rule (2) of rule 5 of the Goa Motor Vehicles (Regulations for School Buses) Rules, 2016, every school must constitute a children’s transportation committee to look into matters pertaining to safe transportation of school children, transportation fees, identification of bus stops, etc. “You are requested to kindly furnish the information/details of the children’s transportation committee constituted by all schools of Tiswadi, Bardez, Pernem, Bicholim and Sattari alukas to this office at the earliest for further necessary action into the matter,” Shirodkar said.As per the rules, the committee has to verify the documents of vehicles transporting children, such as registration certificate, certificate of fitness, certificate of insurance, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, etc.Following a suggestion made by the Road safety council, the Education department three months ago, had asked schools to constitute school transportation committee to ensure children's safety.

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Times of India | 1 day ago | 27-11-2022 | 07:22 pm

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1 day ago | 27-11-2022 | 07:22 pm

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Times of India | 2 days ago | 27-11-2022 | 02:40 am

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