6 held for ‘framing’ teacherin fake molestation case

  • | Sunday | 23rd September, 2018

GURUGRAM: Six people were arrested for “framing” a 58-year-old national award winner, who is the headmaster of a government school in Pataudi , in a “fake” molestation case. Our teams raided the place and arrested the accused while accepting the money,” the official said.“Moreover, the girl also denied all the allegations against the headmaster later in the day. “Both the families met in the office of a local zilla prashad in Jamalpur late on Saturday night. “It’s now clear the allegations against the headmaster was false,” the official said. She told cops that the headmaster would often pick up and drop her as her village was on his way to the school and touch her inappropriately.

GURUGRAM: Six people were arrested for “framing” a 58-year-old national award winner, who is the headmaster of a government school in Pataudi , in a “fake” molestation case. The accused were caught red-handed late on Saturday night while accepting a bribe of Rs 17 lakh to withdraw the complaint against the headmaster, police said.The headmaster was arrested on Saturday afternoon on charges of molesting a student of Class VI, following a complaint filed by the 12-year-old girl’s father. He was sent to judicial custody by a court later in the day in the case lodged under Section 10 of POCSO Act at women’s police station in Manesar The arrest of the six accused, including the girl’s father, came following a tip-off after the girl’s parents did not take her to record her statement before a magistrate. “We got to know that the girl’s father demanded Rs 20 lakh from the headmaster’s family to withdraw the false case and later finalised the deal for Rs 17 lakh,” said a police official.Police formed two teams, one headed by ACP Shakuntala and the other by inspector Jai Prakash Yadav. “Both the families met in the office of a local zilla prashad in Jamalpur late on Saturday night. Our teams raided the place and arrested the accused while accepting the money,” the official said.“Moreover, the girl also denied all the allegations against the headmaster later in the day. An FIR has now been registered against all the accused, including the girl’s father and his friends, who conspired against the headmaster, under sections 384 (extortion) 120b (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of IPC at Pataudi police station,” he said.In the complaint, the girl had alleged that the headmaster molested her on a number of occasions in the past 15 days. She told cops that the headmaster would often pick up and drop her as her village was on his way to the school and touch her inappropriately. “It’s now clear the allegations against the headmaster was false,” the official said.

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