The principal of a State-run residential school at Chincholi in Kalaburagi district and a computer operator in the same institution have been booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for sexually abusing minor girls in their institution.
Just as a video clip of some girls of the institution alleging sexual crimes on the two went viral, Chincholi tahashildar Anjum Tabassum, Deputy Superintendent of Police K. Basavaraj and others visited the school. The team found that the girls had not had any food since morning after one of them had attempted suicide after she was repeatedly subjected to sexual violence. The team managed to convince the girls to have food and later registered a case.
Following a complaint by the tahashildar and an officer from Woman and Child Development, the police arrested the accused and produced before the magistrate who remanded them in judicial custody.
