Mumbai
The girl spoke to her friends when they too revealed the same attitude of the teacher
Updated : Jul 23, 2014, 07:30 AM IST
After the Bangalore school horror, a A 31-year-old tution teacher from Virar has been arrested by the police after a 15-year-old old girl confided about sexual abuse to her parents. When the girl had spoken about the tution teacher's behaviour to her classmates, at least 10 girls said that they experienced the same abuse in his hands.
According to Virar police, the accused Jayprakash Sadashiv Marde,31, a resident of Maurya Nagar of Virar (East) taught secondary class students at Kumawat Academy Classes in Ramchandra Nagar molested at least 10 students by touching their breasts and private parts on some pretext or the other. He used put his hands on the students' shoulders and touch their backs. The students were repeatedly molested since June.
"The teacher flirted with 15-year-old girl by quoting crude shayari and later touched her breasts on pretext of taking a pen. The girl understood his intentions and spoke with her friends who revealed that they too were abused similarly on different occasions", said a Virar police official.
"The students are of class IX and the two friends have confirmed about the sexual abuse while we will take the statements of other students too. We have arrested the teacher under section 354 (Molestation) of the Indian Penal Code and under section 7 and 8 of the Protection of children from sexual offences act," said NB Kohinkar, senior inspector,Virar police station.
"When we produced Marde in Vasai Court he was remanded to police custody and we are investigating further, said Kohinkar.
"After we received the complaint we immediately terminated the services of the teacher and are co-operating with the police investigations while the students continue to study in the classes", said,Ravi Kumawat, owner Kumawat Classes.