Close on the heels of a Sundargarh college girl being raped by his classmates, an incident has now come to the fore in which a minor girl was allegedly raped by a schoolteacher in a forest in Kuchinda block of Sambalpur district.
Later, the video of the incident went viral on social media.
The victim, a Plus Two second year student of Kuchinda Women’s College, was allegedly raped by Pramod Kumar Kharsel, a teacher of the Bouriguda Panchayat High School on July 11 in Dhanudihi forest.
Pramod, lured the girl into the forest on the pretext of showing her the shoot of a music video and allegedly outraged her modesty.
A few locals captured the incident on camera and circulated the video on social media. The girl came across the video and registered a complaint against Pramod on Tuesday night with the Kuchinda police.
While the girl was sent for medical tests to the District Headquarters Hospital, the accused is absconding.