Hyderabad school rape case: Principal gets arrested

After the principal's driver was arrested for alleged sexual assault on a four-year-old kindergarten student in Hyderabad, now the principal is also arrested and remanded in judicial custody.

A four-year-old kindergarten student in Hyderabad was allegedly sexually assaulted by the principal's driver. The driver was arrested earlier and now the principal is also sent to jail and remanded in judicial custody.

The principal was booked under Section 21 (failure to report or record a case) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The police have revealed that the child was being abused by the driver for two months. The driver had threatened her with dire consequences if she revealed the abuse to anyone, as reported by Indian Express.

Police arrested the driver on Tuesday and he was charged under Section 376 AB (rape of a woman under the age of 12 years) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 read with 5 (m) of the POCSO Act.

While investigating the case, the police found that the principal didn't restrict the access of the driver in school as he ran errands for the staff members and helped in the maintenance of laboratories. He was in constant contact with the students inside the school and behaved as a proxy for the principal.

The child's parents had noticed a change in her behaviour as she became depressed, unusually quiet, and found crying. When the mother spoke to the child, she found that the child was assaulted. 

As per the reports, she was raped in a digital classroom or lab near the principal's chambers. She pointed towards the driver when the parents went with her to school on Tuesday, after which the parents filed a complaint and the man was arrested the same day. 

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