Kendrapara, July 11: A 58-year-old teacher of a government upper primary school at Derabish in Kendrapara district was arrested for allegedly raping a Class V student, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place on Tuesday evening when the accused teacher was taking private classes after closure of the school and the mother of the 10-year-old victim filed an FIR at the Derabish police station on Wednesday after she came to know the matter.
According to the victim, the accused teacher, Pramod Kumar Rath, asked the victim to come to a separate room to give her some books and raped. He also threatened the minor girl with dire consequences not to reveal the incident before abyone.
The victim’s mother got to know of her daughter’s ordeal after the girl complained of abdominal pain.
We launched an investigation into the matter acting on the FIR and found that the teacher had raped the minor girl. The accused confessed to the crime during interrogation. Later, both the girl and the teacher were examined by doctors at the district headquarters hospital, Kendrapara, said Derabish police station IIC Kisor Tarei.
The accused teacher was arrested under sections 74 and 75 of BNS and section 10 of the POCSO Act, 2012 and forwarded to jail after his bail bail got rejected by a local court, he added.