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| Authorities wake up to report on 'sexploitation of school girls in Kashmir'; start inquiry | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 25: A day after Early Times reported exclusively on "sexploitation of Government school girls in Kashmir", the authorities today woke up to look into the matter even as the office of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) here remained "under scanner".
Highly placed sources said some senior officials assigned the task of "internal inquiry" visited the school where from the complaint of "sexploitation of girls" had come.
Sources said team of officials during the school visit held detailed deliberations with the staff. "The emergency meeting lasted for around four hours," the sources said, adding that apart from school staff the principal was also present.
Later in the day, a team of officials visited Harwan area to "have a look of the house" about which the girls had said they were being lured into. The DSEK, as per insiders, plans to complete its "internal inquiry within next 48-hours" while report will be sent to the Raj Bhawan.
Meanwhile the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon, as per sources, this morning made a phone call to Director Education Dr Shah Faesal to express his "displeasure" that he had taken the case non-seriously despite strict instructions from his superiors.
Earlier this month, the Divisional Commissioner had asked Dr Faesal to seriously look into the matter. As per the sources, the school girls and their parents had visited the office of Divisional Commissioner to narrate their woeful tale that "our own teachers tried to dupe us by introducing us to strangers who wanted to sell us."
The complainants have been saying that some school teachers introduced the girls to a man who pretended to be a senior official in the Central Government and assured of them giving scholarships if they perform "dance shows" before "selected audience at secret venues".
This man, who had also visited the school were the girls studied, was in constant contact with the girls and their teachers.
The girls say their teachers wanted them to keep "good contact with the officer (imposter)". Even after the schools closed for winter break, this imposter and the teacher remained in touch with the girls and one fine morning asked them to accompany him for "secret cultural show."
Luckily, parents of one of the girls had accompanied them only to discover that she was almost being "thrown to prostitution at a house in Harwan locality." The parents had found that there was no cultural show at the house but that some young men were waiting there to "grab the girls." But the girls, being accompanied by the mother had managed to flee from the spot.
Though they had subsequently filed a complaint with DSEK, the department had been sleeping over the issue. It only acted today when Early Times unearthed the racket. Sources have been saying that some Ministers from the previous Government were trying to "hush up the case as otherwise it would open up a can of worms for them."
"DSEK is being run by some hidden hands of politicians who still have their absolute control on the directorate and are calling the shots," the sources said.
They said only this was why the Education department avoided to file a police case and relied on "internal inquiry" into the matter.
Meanwhile various civil society groups of Kashmir hailed Early Times for having exposed the racket. They have demanded an impartial probe by Central Bureau of Investigation. They appealed Governor NN Vohra to look into the matter. |
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