Ghaziabad police have arrested a teacher for sexual advances to a Class XI student of a prestigious public school in Modinagar town here. Police said that teacher Sanjay Agrawal was arrested on Friday night following a protest by students outside the police station.
The students complained that Agrawal who teaches in Chhaya Public School also runs a coaching institute from his Harmukhpuri residence where they used to attend classes.The students alleged that the teacher used to ask the victim to come 10 minutes earlier so he could ‘monitor’ her performance. Under this pretext, he used to feel her. She initially could not muster courage as he was a teacher in her school. However, when she narrated her ordeal to her classmates, the students also reached early and caught Agrawal red-handed. They thrashed him before taking him to the police station.
Police registered a case under Sections 354 (b) of IPC and Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act.