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Akola: A school teacher was arrested in Maharashtra’s Akola district on charges of molestation following complaints from six school girls, police said on August 21.
The incident came to light after schoolgirls filed a complaint about the teacher who has been identified as Pramod Manohar Sardar. Police have recorded the statements of the victim girls. The accused was arrested on Tuesday evening.|
Superintendent of Police Akolka Bachchan Singh told ANI, “Akola Police received a complaint of molestation of six school girls by Pramod Manohar Sardar, a teacher of the Zilla Parishad School in Kajikhed. Police immediately arrested the accused teacher and recorded the statements of the victim girls.” “Cases under sections 74 and 75 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and POCSO Act were registered,” SP Singh added.
Further investigation into the case is underway, he said.
The incident has been reported after Badlapur assault case. Earlier, Thousands of protesters blocked railway tracks at Thane’s Badlapur station over alleged sexual assault of two girls by a school sweeper in the washroom.
The incident comes amid nationwide protests over the murder and alleged sexual assault of a female trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal City of Kolkata on August 9. The assault of a doctor has sent shockwaves across the country.
