ROHTAK: A fortnight after the infamous episode where five students of a gurukul in a village of Rohtak district were allegedly sexually abused by their seniors, the authorities of the institute have got night vision cameras installed to prevent such incidents in future.The 27-year-old institute hit national headlines on August 26 when an FIR was registered against 10 persons, including seven students, under Section 202 (intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 377 (unnatural act), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intent) of the IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.Learning from the episode, Hari Dutt, founder of education institute, told TOI that they had got at least 36 night-vision CCTV cameras installed inside the hostel and on school campus. “We had cameras earlier also but it was not inside the hostel having a capacity of 100 students. After the crime was highlighted, we have taken a decision to install suggestion-cum-complaint boxes for junior students to lodge their complaints without revealing their identity to curb such episodes in future,” Hari Dutt added.The education institute founder added that they had hung emergency helpline numbers at the entrance of the education institute for hostlers to contact if they want to seek outside intervention.Breaking silence over the episode, Hari Dutt who dedicated his ancestral land for raising the educational institute, said that they were unaware that the school should install suggestion/complaint boxes/CCTV cameras. “Since the visit of CBSE board officials during affiliation time in late 1990s, no one has ever visited our place for sensitizing us. Influential politicians or administration officials came to visit the campus for donation or religious purpose,” he maintained.On the allegations of caning students for a small mistake, he said that they do deal with hostler students strictly and sometime resort to beating, but that was done to keep them away from bad habits. He further said that they had also appointed Jagminder Sangwan, a child psychologist as director of the institute, who could engage with the students to deal with their personal issues in cordial atmosphere.Hari Dutt said accused principal Jaivir, who is on the run since the event unfolded, and two other teachers booked in the FIR had been suspended till they come clean.

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