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| 'Sexploitation': Parents asked to withdraw complaint | | | Early times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: Skeletons have started to tumble out of the closet over allegations of "sexploitation" of students of a Government Girls Higher Secondary School here. While the Government claims that the "internal inquiry" has been initiated by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir, the complainants have not only been asked to "take back the complaint" but one of the accused has dared to rebuke them.
The aggrieved parents said that they recently received calls "on behalf of the concerned" to take back the complaint as otherwise "the case will lengthen" and that the quick way to resolve it was to take "discharge certificate of the students" and get them admitted in some other school.
"We received phone calls that it would be appropriate to take back the complaint and resolve the matter instantly by taking DCs of our children (from that school)," they told Early Times, adding that they "fear a risk".
The parents said they received the phone calls recently but added that one of the accused was hostile towards them last week. Highly placed sources said the inquiry committee meeting in response to the complaint was held on January 23 at the school under scanner.
Sources said the accused teacher "misbehaved" with complainant. "The accused teacher told us that we should realize that she happens to be the wife (of a top official) and that the compliant had become a headache for her," the complainants said.
The school principal confirmed about the meeting of the inquiry committee held last week but said she was nowhere involved in anything pertaining to the complaint.
"This all started last year when on the directions of the Directorate (of school education) we would send our students for programs that these students got in touch with the man who said he would give them scholarships," the principal told reporters at the school premises, after Early Times broke the story.
As per the written complaint filed by mother of one of the school children, one of the teachers from the Physical Education Wing, who looks after the cultural programs, introduced the girls to a person who pretended to be Director Radio Kashmir. The man had told the girls he would get them scholarships. Early Times is in possession of the copy of the complaint filed before the Director Education.
"Ms (teacher, name withheld) gave contact number of (man, name withheld), self-claimed Director of Radio Kashmir, Srinagar, to the students telling them that (he) will enable them to participate in cultural programmes," the letter reads. The man subsequently asked the girls to meet him.
"The girls were told by (him) to meet him outside the Govt Women's College, MA Road on 9th of January 2015. (He) boarded us with our mothers in a local sumo and carried to New Theed, Harwan but on the way he nowhere stopped the vehicle near any school though he had told them about their participation in a school cultural programme," the complaint letter reads.
"At New Theed the Sumo stopped and (he) told us to come in some house," stated the complaint.
"But only I entered into the house at New Theed wherein I found six youths above 20 years old and I returned outside and cried and took both the students back to (school) where I narrated the whole episode to the principal of the school." The complaint further reads, "The principal in turn replied that there was no such programme scheduled by the school."
Mother said in the complaint, "Had I not returned from said house and carried the students along with me, there would have been a problem for these students. In this way the mother of the complainant herein developed fear about the daughters in the school."
Director Education Dr Shah Faesal has been saying that "internal inquiry" into the matter is on to "clear the misconceptions". "As of now in the written complaint, there are no allegations of sexual harassment," Shah Faesal, Director Education recently wrote on a social networking website. "Please wait for the facts to come out. It is a very sensitive issue and hasty conclusions can be extremely damaging." |
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