Bengaluru: Police books 4 management members in nursery kid sexual assault case

Four school management staff have been booked under Section 188 of the IPC for failing to follow the state government rules on not letting men accompany children to the washroom.

After many parents gathered at the nursery school located in Belladur on Monday evening demanding the principal be arrested for criminal negligence in the case of a three-and-a-half-year old being sexually assaulted on Friday.

Developments so far:

1. The police on Tuesday finally arrested the principal, general manager and 2 other school staff under Section 188 of the IPC. The arrests took place after parents questioned the police for allegedly shielding the school management.

2. Senior Congress leader VS Ugrappa, MLC and Chairman, Expert Committee on Prevention of Sexual Violence against Women and Children along with Whitefield DCP Narayana M visited the school and met the protesting parents. Ugrappa assured the agitated parents that all proper procedures will be followed by the police and urged other parents present there to add their complaints to the main FIR.

3. Extra police personnel were deployed around the school to make sure that things did not get ugly. Senior police officers who spoke to India Today on the condition of anonymity said that after what transpired on Monday evening when the parents corned the principal, they did not want to take any chance today. The parents on the other hand said that they were not thugs and goons but were here because their children have been affected and they wanted justice.

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4. The mother of the minor speaking exclusively to India Today said that she was happy with how the police took action immediately today when they filed a complaint. But when they got to know that more than 40 children were also allegedly complaining of being sexually assaulted, that is when they decided that the school management be taken to task.

5. "What we need to know is what sort of action will the police take against the school management now," she asked adding, "Additional Commissioner of Police (East) Hemanth Nimbalkar has assured us of action and we are hopeful that our perception of the police doing a proper job remains the same."

6. The police last night had made the parents sit at the Marathahalli Police Station till after 11 pm with many senior officers speaking to them.

7. However, even though action has been taken, most of the parents are in a state of shock.

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