The police in Assam’s Baksa district have arrested a security guard on the charge of sexual harassment of a minor girl at a Government-run Children Home in the district. Interestingly, the accused is also the husband of the House Mother of the children’s Home.
The incident took place Northeast Mission Children Home at Barama in the district, police said and added that the district administration had closed the Home after the incident and shifted all the 24 inmates to another children’s Home located nearby.
Police said that the incident of sexual harassment by the person came to the light only recently after a team of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of the social welfare department visited the Home and interacted with the inmates.
“The accused, Mangal Bodo(55), is now in judicial custody. A 13-year-old girl inmate of the Home narrated to the CWC team all about how the accused sexually harassed her. later, another inmate narrated how she had escaped twice earlier from his sexual harassment attempts,” Inspector Durlav Chandra Das of Barama police station said.
“The person was arrested while based on a complaint lodged by the CWC officials,” police said.
last year, a similar incident of sexual assault was reported from another Home in eastern Assam’ Dibrugarh district.