: The District Child Welfare Committee (DCWC) member Gurdev Singh told that tomorrow on Thursday, a copy of report on the sexual offences and the bad-touch incidents by the hostel warden in one Ambala Boarding School will be submitted to the Headquarters of
Haryana Women & Child Development (WCD) in
Panchkula, and a copy each will be sent to the Ambala deputy commissioner (DC), Education Department, and Police Department.
The DCWC has raised many questions on the functioning of the boarding school. Gurdev told that if the matter was reported to the school by the students on September 3, then why no
First Information Report (FIR) or complaint was registered against the accused since September 10. The school management did not report these incidents to the Child Protection Commission, which is negligence in the functioning of the school director and principal.
Arjun, a representative from the boarding school of Ambala where the incidents were happening said, "As per the record available with us the complaint to the police was filed on September 8, and further details cannot be shared at this time."
Gurdev said, “The school is claiming that they had given the complaint to the Ambala police on September 3, whereas the complaint given to the Ambala Superintendent of Police by the school principal was received by a constable of a police station here on September 8, which proves that the school was not prompt enough to report the matter either the police department or with the district child helpline services.”
The team of DCWC surprisingly visited the concerned boarding school to inspect about the incidents of sexual abuse and bad touches on September 10, where the team recorded the statements of many students of different classes staying in the school hostel facility. The students in their statements have alleged that the accused warden used to mistreat the students in his office room, he used to beat them with hockey stick and fists, to threaten the students from disclosing the incidents to anyone outside.
On September 10, after the matter was surfaced in the mainstream media, the district police have booked the accused warden who is resident of Zirakpur in
Mohali under section 8 and 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences at Baldev Nagar police station. The arrest of the accused is still pending in this case.
