Police arrested the son of the principal of Don Bosco school in Mira Road (east) for allegedly molesting a three-year-old in the school toilet.
If the incidents that came to light on Saturday are anything to go by, it would appear that schools are not a safe place for children.
Police on Saturday arrested the son of the principal of Don Bosco school in Mira Road (east) for allegedly molesting a three-year-old in the school toilet.
And in Vile Parle, police registered a case against a primary school teacher for allegedly assaulting and seriously injuring a six-year old boy for not bringing a notebook.
The Mira Road police arrested Kamlesh Rajendra Khicha, 21, son of Rajendra Khicha, who is the principal of Don Bosco school in Mira Road (East). In her complaint to the police, Surekha Gangurde (name changed to protect identity), has said that on Thursday, when her daughter was in school, the accused, Kamlesh, took the toddler to the school bathroom and molested her.
On returning from school, the child informed her mother about the incident. When Gangurde confronted the school principal about the incident, Khicha denied that his son ever visited the school.
Gangurde subsequently lodged a police complaint.
In the Vile Parle case, there are conflicting versions of the incident.
Sonu Chandaliya, mother of six-year-old Arun Chandaliya, believes that the teacher brutally assaulted her child.
“A detailed enquiry should be initiated and the teacher should be arrested at the earliest. You cannot terrorise children at the name of education” said a relative of Chandaliya.
However, preliminary investigations by the police seem to indicate that the victim, a student in a civic school, had got into a fight with his class mates, with the boys battling each other with wooden rulers.
Cops said the injuries on boy’s body could be the result of the fight, and the teacher, identified as Nausheen, may have only intervened to stop the fight and reprimanded the boys for their unruly behaviour.
The police source added that Chandaliya’s parents were probably upset with the injuries suffered by their boy - on shoulder, hands and thighs — and therefore took the school administration to task.
Chandaliya’s mother, who works as a cleaner in the same school, then registered a case against Nausheen at Vile Parle police station.
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