Teacher spreads fake story of sexual assault on student, ET Education
Thiruvananthapuram: Kilimanoor police registered a Pocso case against a woman teacher on Friday for spreading a fake sexual assault story against a female Plus One student at Madavoor.
Following the incident, the management of Raja Ravi Varma Girls Higher Secondary School suspended Hindi teacher C R Chandralekha, 42, after finding her allegations baseless. She had cooked up a story of a teacher, Vishnu, 35, sexually assaulting the student in the school and impregnating her.
Police said Chandralekha committed the crime to evict Vishnu from the school and wanted to be part of the school management. “There were some issues between the accused and Vishnu over school management’s powers. The accused and her husband, who is also a teacher at the school, wanted to be a part of the management and Vishnu was against it. By cooking up the story, she wanted to evict Vishnu,” said police.
Chandralekha shared the defamatory story in the school WhatsApp groups and also aired a video about it on a YouTube channel, with images of the girl and Vishnu. The girl was absent from school for a few days for epilepsy treatment. When she returned after treatment, she couldn’t attend classes due to humiliation from other students.
General education minister V Sivankutty promised a transparent probe into the incident and asked deputy director of education to submit a report within seven days. “Levelling such fake allegations is a grave offence and it is even more serious when it is against a girl. The culprits will be aptly punished,” said Sivankutty.
The girl’s parents submitted complaints to the chief minister’s office, child welfare committee and SC/ST commission.
In Jan this year, a lab attendance book had gone missing and a lab assistant was suspended for it. Chandralekha and Vishnu had quarrelled with each other over the incident. The girl’s parents alleged that Chandralekha had raised similar allegations against Vishnu last year too.
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