While a missionary school principal was arrested for sexually abusing four minor girls on Thursday, a day before the police arrested three persons, including two ladies, for sexual assault on a lady staff of a children’s home in the district.
According to sources, K Prasanna Kumar, principal of a missionary school at Gariabahal in Jamankira block was arrested for sexual misconduct against four minor girls. Kumar is a resident of Tamil Nadu.
“The school is run by South Kerala Daisies, Trivandrum. All the four girls are inmates of the school’s hostel, where 11 girls and 32 boys are staying,” informed the IIC of Jamankira police station BM Harpal, adding that the school has a total of 170 students.
After getting allegation from the girls and their guardians regarding the objectionable behaviour of the principal, police had conducted an enquiry and found the case to be true. later, the accused was arrested.
Similarly, in yet another incident, police on Wednesday night arrested one Bipin Bihari Behera, secretary of Rukmui lath Balniketan, a home for the destitute children, on allegation of sexual harassment to a former lady employee. Two house mothers of the Balniketan Kamalini Tripathy and Kalyani Tripathy were arrested for abetting the crime.
Behera is the Sarapanch of the local Birsighgarh Gram Panchayat under Jujomura block. The arrested house mothers are sisters and widows.
As per information, leenamayee Rout (20) of Kankara village under Bargarh district had joined as a care taker in the Balniketan on September 21, 2012. After a few days, secretary Behera had called her to his room in one midnight and forced her for physical relation.
When she protested and sought the help of two house mothers, they, instead of coming to her rescue, rather told her to agree to the request of the secretary. Disgusted, Rout had called it a day in the destitute home.
However, little had she forgotten trauma of the night and had lodged an FIR against the secretary and the house mothers. Former SP Nikhil Kanodia had appointed lady DSP Sabita Panda to probe the case. After Panda gave a report showing the allegation to be true, SP Pratik Kumar Mohanty asked Dhama police to arrest the trio. They were forwarded to court on Thursday.