Chairman, Uttarakhand State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights Yogendra Khanduri has sought report of investigation and actions taken within three days in regards to a case of a six- year-old minor being allegedly molested by the store keeper of a Haldwani based prominent school Auram School.
Notably, the medical examination of the victim conducted after the crime came to the fore had confirmed the molestation allegation.
In the letter to SSP, Nainital district, the commission has attached news papers’ cuttings over this issue and sought the report of the investigation and the action taken on the report within three days, informed state under-secretary Dr Shakti Prasad Semwal.
It should be mentioned here that police arrested the accused identified as Bablu alias Balwant Bisht, resident of Haldwani. Moreover, another parent had also registered a similar complaint of molestation involving its minor daughter, a student of the same school, in the Haldwani police station.
Soon after the crimes had come into light, parents and local residents had protested in the school campus and demanded stringent action against the accused and the school management. Acting on both the complaints, a case under section 376 of IPC and sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act had been registered against the accused in the Haldwani police station.
Nainital SSP Janmejay Khanduri had earlier said that the accused Bablu was store keeper in the school distributing books to the students. He who had been working in the school for the last one and half year had been arrested and sent to jail.