UP Teacher Arrested For Sexually Harassing Student; School Sealed Over Violations

A non-public college instructor within the Budhana house of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for sexually harassing a 16-year-old girl scholar, police reported on Thursday. 

The suspect, 35-year-old Shehzad, used to be arrested on Wednesday. He has been charged beneath Sections 74 (attack or legal drive to a lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 75 (sexual harassment), and 351 (legal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), in conjunction with provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, mentioned Budhana Circle Officer Gajendra Pal Singh.

In response to the prevalence, the native schooling division sealed the college on grounds of a number of operational irregularities. The government disclosed that the college had formal authorization to perform as much as Class 8 however used to be discovered working Classes 9 and 10 illegally.

A probe into the establishment’s regulatory offenses is at this time ongoing.