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Headmaster arrested for molesting eight-yr-old dalit child
TNN | Nov 4, 2011, 01.19AM IST
VIRUDHUNAGAR : In an inhumane act, a 51-year-old school headmaster
allegedly molested an eight-year-old girl child in rural Virudhunagar
district on Thursday shocking her parents, as well as public in the
village.
The dalit girl, studying third standard in the Panchayat Union
Elementary School at Pazhaya Sennelkulam near Sriviliputhur had come
to the school around 8.30 in the morning. In less than two hours, she
returned home crying. When her parents sought her explanation asked
her as to why she was crying, the girl narrated the incident that
happened at the school.
"Soon after the girl arrived at the school, the headmaster Ramasamy
took her from the classroom to a secluded spot within the school
premises and molested her. When she started crying, Ramasamy let her
go. But he threatened to murder her if she revealed the incident at
the school to anyone," police said.
The girl's parents immediately rushed to the school and complained to
the other staff about this. to the staff there.
But Ramasamy, who spotted the angry parents approaching the school,
fled from there.
The girl's parents then went to the police station at Vanniyampatti
and lodged a complaint. Police registered a case against Ramasamy
under IPC sections 354 (assault with intention to outrage the
modesty), 506 (1) (criminal intimidation) and SC/ST Prevention of
Atrocities Act.
Ramasamy was arrested later in the day and remanded to judicial
custody. Police are conducting inquiries whether the headmaster had
committed similar offences in the past. The girl was taken to the
government hospital at Srivilliputhur and discharged after treatment
and psychological counselling.
A Kathir, director of Evidence, an NGO demanded that a thorough probe
on the antecedents of the headmaster should be done and he should be
dismissed from service for the offence.
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