India police arrest school principal, teacher for suspected rape, blackmail of teenage girl
The 15-year-old girl ‘has alleged that over a period of seven months, 19 persons have committed rape on her’, says district police chief
Indian police arrested seven people on Tuesday, including a school principal and a teacher, on suspicion of raping and blackmailing a teenage girl over several months, the latest case of sexual abuse of minors.
Recent incidents of sexual violence have sparked protests in several Indian cities this year, echoing mass rallies over a fatal gang rape case in 2012, and putting pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has promised action.
In the latest case, five students, a teacher and school principal were arrested in the eastern state of Bihar after a 15-year-old girl filed a complaint last week, police said.
District police chief Har Kishore Rai said the girl told police she was raped by students in a school lavatory in December 2017. The sexual abuse continued for seven months, she told police.
The victim said the principal and two teachers allegedly raped her when she reported the incident to them, Rai said.