CHANDIGARH: A 33-year old woman teacher has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy who used to take tuitions from her.
He was allegedly being sexually assaulted since March. The teacher was produced in the Chandigarh district court on Thursday and sent to judicial custody. Police have booked the teacher under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act for aggravated penetrative sexual assault after receiving a complaint from the parents.
The boy, a student of Class X, lives in the same locality as the teacher.
Sangeeta Jund, project manager of
Child Helpline, said when they counselled the boy they realised that the teacher was not only aggressive with him but was also extremely possessive about him. As he slowly opened up to the counsellors, he gave details of the abuse he was facing. The case first came to light on May 22 when the parents approached the teacher to cancel the tuition classes as the boy’s grades were not improving. The teacher became
with the parents and locked up the boy in a room. The parents freed the boy with the help of neighbours and took him home. But the teacher went to their home and consumed cough syrup. The parents then called up police and the teacher was taken to hospital.
Counsellors from Child Helpline were called in and they found that the boy was being sexually abused. The teacher had given a SIM card to the boy through which she stayed in touch with him. “The teacher was sexually assaulting the boy and also sending him emotional text messages,” Jund said
The teacher was produced in the Chandigarh district court on Thursday that had sent to judicial custody.
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