Police arrested a teacher on Monday on the charge of raping a 11-year-old student in the Madhusudan Upper Primary School at Sasanapada village under the Binjharapur police station limits on Friday last. The victim girl reads in class VI in the school.
The accused was identified as Sruti Ranjan Jena. The family members of the victim girl came to know about the incident on Monday when she refused to go to the school. An FIR was filed by the grandfather of the victim girl in the police station against the teacher.
The arrested teacher and victim girl were medically examined and an investigation is on, said Binjharapur police station IIC Suchitra Birja Das.