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POCSO case slapped against management of leading girls’ school over ‘sexual assault’

By Prakruti PK, Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Jan 12, 2015

In what may be described as an appalling first for a prestigious all-girls’ private school located in the heart of the city, the Central division police have registered a complaint under various sections of the POCSO Act along with section 354 (a) of the IPC against three members of the school management for allegedly manhandling and sexually assaulting students who were staging a protest on the school’s premises, on Thursday morning. The protest was against the installation of a new principal.

Highly-placed police sources confirmed that a former teacher and member of the Church of South India, Karnataka Central Diocese, approached the Cubbon Park police on Saturday and filed an FIR against three members of the school management claiming they used foul language to…