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Kanungo told news agency ANI that the school’s attitude was insensitive. They tried to hush up the matter. The concerned police station did not register an FIR within the stipulated time. A team (of NCPCR) will be sent to the spot.
A team of NCPCR (National Commission for Protection of Child Rights) will investigate the alleged sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls by a male employee of their school in Badlapur in Thane district of Maharashtra. NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanungo has given this information. He alleged that the school authorities have tried to ‘hush up’ the matter. Kanungo told news agency ANI that the school’s attitude was insensitive. They tried to suppress the matter. The concerned police station did not register an FIR within the stipulated time. A team (of NCPCR) will be sent to the spot.
Besides, Kanungo termed the removal of police officials in the case by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the home portfolio in the state, as a ‘positive step’. Action must be taken against the school administration or those responsible for not filing an FIR and suppressing the case. He also announced that he would ‘personally monitor’ the investigation by the team of the country’s apex child rights body. His statement came amid massive protests in Badlapur; on Tuesday morning, thousands of people gathered at the city’s railway station and blocked the tracks, halting services on the Kalyan-Karjat section of the Central Railway.
The opposition claimed that the victims’ parents were made to wait for 11 hours at the Badalpur police station before their complaint could be registered. Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar demanded that the police officer responsible for this should be suspended. “A three-and-a-half-year-old girl, a four-year-old girl is tortured and when they go to register a complaint, they (the parents) are made to wait for 11 hours at the police station… is there any sensitivity left?” Wadettiwar said, “I spoke to the police commissioner and told him that the woman police officer responsible for this delay should be suspended immediately. The police have arrested the main accused, a sanitation worker.”
#WATCH | Delhi: On the incident of alleged sexual assault with a girl child at a school in Badlapur, NCPCR Chairperson Priyank Kanungo says, “The school’s attitude in this case was insensitive. They tried to suppress the case. The concerned police station did not register an FIR… pic.twitter.com/WBZiufI2ni
— ANI (@ANI) August 20, 2024
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