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PUNE: The Pune police told a city court on Thursday that the principal of a well-known English medium school here, arrested for molesting a 14-year-old student, was also involved in an “incident” while he was principal of a school in Solapur. The committee in Pune examined the incident that happened here and sent the principal to the geriatric care home for five years and placed him under observation. A police team is being sent to Solapur for collecting documents and details of the earlier case, he added.However, when contacted, a member of the internal inquiry committee set up to look into the Pune incident told TOI, “There was no case of molestation involving the principal (who is also a priest) in Solapur. The police further told the court that an internal school inquiry committee in Solapur had sent the principal for “observation” to a geriatric care home in Pune.“We are investigating why he was assigned the principal’s role in the Pune school despite his three-year suspension in the Solapur matter,” senior inspector Sayaji Gaware told TOI on Thursday. After a lot of counselling, the parents agreed to file the complaint.”(With inputs from Gitesh Shelke).