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| DSEK's internal inquiry report 'self-contradictory' | | | Hyder Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 28: Even as the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) had last month termed the complaint filed by parents over alleged exploitation of teenage schoolgirls as "making a mountain out of molehill", the investigators are understood to have found the internal inquiry report "self-contradictory, illogical and concocted," conceived out of bias to "exonerate the teacher and other accused."
The government appointed investigators, who are tracking the case, said the internal inquiry initiated by the DSEK into the "serious complaints" was a mockery in itself. They said under norms no internal inquiry can be initiated in a case, where accused happens to be an outsider.
In this case, the parents had accused a school teacher at Amira Kadal Higher Secondary School of having introduced their wards to an outsider, who pretended to be Director Radio Kashmir and lured them for a "private performance at a secluded house on the outskirts of Srinagar."
"Given the suspicious role of the outsider, there was no scope of internal inquiry but the same was started only to save the school principal, who as per the norms, should have been among the first to be placed under suspension," said insiders in the DSEK.
Otherwise also, the report has been "self-contradictory". On one hand, the inquiry report admits that the accused teacher introduced her students to the outsider but on the other hand the same 4-page report claims that the teacher doesn't know the man.
"Mazy(name changed) madam has been instrumental in giving the contact number of the theatrist to the girl students out of goodwill with no intention to malign or undermine the girl students in any way," reads the inquiry report, a copy of which lies with Early Times.
But in the same report, the inquiry officials say that the teacher didn't know the man. "She (teacher) denied to have met him (accused outsider) earlier and informed that she has no acquaintance with him," the report reads.
The investigators have raised the question that if the teacher didn't know the man then how come she introduced schoolgirls to him and gave his contact number to them? The outsider had also called on the school principal.
Sources said initially given the "political pressures" the case was handed over to a principal Kothi Bagh only because she has "family relations" with the accused principal and thus would not seek her suspension. "Principal Kothi Bagh was earlier serving in the same school where from the complaint had come. Basically principals of both the schools are family wise close to each other and enjoy political patronage which is being upheld by the officials in the Directorate of Education," the insiders said, adding the "internal inquiry" was ordered by Director Education Shah Faseal.
Highly placed sources said it was loopholes like these in the case, which prompted the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Asgar Hasssan Samoon to formally handover the case to police.
On Jan 27, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir handed over the case to police. Sources said the Raj Bhawan had remained unconvinced the way the DESK handled the case and thus police was asked to file the case.
Otherwise, the internal inquiry had found "nothing serious" in the complaint. "We feel that the matter has been blown out of proportion by the complainant as she is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. It is our considered opinion, that the case be closed as unfounded," the internal inquiry had claimed.
But following a hue and cry over the issue the government formally handed over the case to police. |
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