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| 'Friendshipwith accused dents probe committee's partiality' | | Sexploitation of schoolgirls | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: The three member enquiry committee formed to probe involvement of some officials of School Education department in 'exploitation' of school girls morally has come under a cloud.
Sources told Early Times that the person heading the committee is a senior official in the Cultural Wing of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK). They said that it is quite 'impossible' and 'illogical' that the official would submit a negative report in the matter since fingers have been raised over the involvement of some of his colleagues in the scandal.
"It is an irony that the enquiry committee is headed by a senior official of the cultural wing of DSEK. How can he go against his own colleagues and establish their role in the whole episode. The enquiry officer should have been from some other wing of the Education department so that doubts would not have been raised over the fairness in this entire matter," said sources.
Sources said that the other two members of the committee are Riyaz Ahmad Sidiqee and Romana Qazi. While Riyaz is the Principal of Sri Pratap (SP) Higher Secondary School, Srinagar, Romana is the Principal of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothi Bagh. Interestingly, Romana is a close relative of former education minister Naeem Akhtar and was transferred to Kothi Bagh from Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Amira Kadal recently. "It was only after the intervention of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir that the enquiry committee was constituted. This is despite the fact that higher ups of the DSEK had claimed that they had ordered for the enquiry when some complaint was made in this regard. It remains to be seen that what would be report of the committee as and when it is made public," said sources.
Sources said that seriousness of the probe can be easily gauged from the fact that the enquiry committee members are acting in a friendly manner with the people said to be 'culprits'. They said that instead of acting tough against the people accused in the matter the enquiry committee members are asking them irrelevant questions that too in cozy environment.
"The recent incident is just a tip of the ice-berg since similar complaints have come from the other districts of Kashmir valley. It is high time that the whole matter is probed in a professional manner without any interference from the school education department. Once that happens it is for sure that many skeletons would come out of the cupboard and the real culprits would be known to the people. Only then stern action can be taken so that such things are not repeated," said sources.
It would be in place to mention here that Early Times in its January 25 issue had reported that teenage girls of a Government Higher Secondary School in Srinagar, since last year, through 'middlemen' have been asked to perform 'cultural programs' at private residences of some 'influential people'. The poor girls were being promised 'big scholarships' in lieu of the 'private performances.' |
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