Kochi : Kerala Police has arrested three teachers including the headmaster of a government school in a case of sexual harassment of a minor. . All these accused have been arrested by the police after registering a case under the POCSO Act. According to media reports, the Kerala Police arrested him on Monday from Nagercoil in Kanyakumari district of neighboring Tamil Nadu. It is alleged that these three teachers of a government school in Thrippunithura police station area of Ernakulam district of Kerala had fled after committing the incident and were hiding in Nagercoil, Kanyakumari.
Police under POCSO Act Arrested underAccording to media reports, The Kerala Police on Monday arrested a teacher of a government school in neighboring Tamil Nadu on charges of sexually assaulting his plus-one student last week. Apart from this, the headmaster and two other teachers of the school were also arrested on Monday itself for not reporting the incident to the police in time, the police said in a statement issued here on Tuesday. Police said that all of them have been arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act.
After the incident 2969 the accused was hiding in Nagercoil since November
According to media reports, one of the accused Kiran Karunakaran has been arrested by the Kerala Police He was arrested from Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district, where he was hiding after committing the crime on 2969 November. According to reports, the girl student was allegedly sexually assaulted on Wednesday in the area under Thrippunithura police station in Kerala’s Ernakulam district while she was traveling on her bike while returning from an arts festival with her school teacher Kiran Karunakaran. Was staying
Car of the main accused also SeizedAccording to the report, the police The principal of the school, Shivkala, and two teachers, Shailaja and Joseph, were also arrested for not giving information. Along with this, the police also arrested two other people who had helped in hiding the main accused Kiran Karunakaran, a native of Pattimattam in Ernakulam district. Besides this, the police also seized the car of the main accused, which he had hidden after committing the crime to evade his arrest.