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"Assistant commissioner with the social welfare department (Beed) Ravindra Shinde said the school management has suspended the accused teacher. "The inquiry at our level is still in progress and we will serve a show-cause notice to the school management once it is over. Senior government officials from the social welfare department also accompanied us in our visit, during which we asked the affected girls to share their experiences without any fear. The girls echoed similar experiences of sexual abuse that were mentioned in the letter. We also prevailed upon the school management for lodging a police complaint in the matter," he said.The Shirur police have registered an offence under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 and have also invoked IPC 354 (A) (Sexual harassment).The accused teacher has been declared an absconder by the police.The incident has also brought to the notice alleged ill management of a section of aided residential schools in the region which has been operating without female wardens among other blatant violations, Deshpande alleged..