News from Mumbai: Arab teacher arrested for allegedly abusing a girl ten years ago

A 17-year-old student from a Mumbai school revealed during a counseling session that she was allegedly molested by an Arabic language teacher a decade ago.

A case was filed against the accused on Thursday following the complaint from the school where the victim studies in class XII, an official of the Powai police station said on Saturday.

Within four hours of the case being registered, the suspect was arrested by the police.

“During the counseling session, the girl said that the teacher often came to her home to teach Arabic. If she didn’t finish her homework, the suspect would touch her inappropriately. The girl said these incidents happened when she was six to eight years old. old,” the official said.

The suspect has been charged under the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act.

In a separate case, a teacher was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a tribal student of Class IX at a residential school in Dahod district of Gujarat, a police official said on Saturday.

The incident took place at a tribal residential school in Khalta village and the accused has been identified as Kalpesh Baria, the Dhanpur police station official said.

“Baria called the 17-year-old student to his room at the Khalta Ashramshala campus on Thursday evening on the pretext of cooking for him and made sexual advances. He also grabbed her from behind. She managed to leave the spot only after calling her sister there,” the official said.

“After her siblings, who study in the same school, heard about her ordeal, they informed their father. The family filed a complaint against Baria on Friday and he was arrested soon after,” he said.

Baria has been charged under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 75 (1)(i) (physical contact and advances involving unwanted and explicit sexual advances), section 8 (sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The ashramshala is run by the state social welfare department.