TNN | Mar 8, 2012, 02.03AM IST
AHMEDABAD: On the eve of Women's day, the Shahpur police has arrested a teacher of Nelson school for sexually harassing three girls of class XI.
The shameful incident came to light when the teacher Mansukh Vyas wrote letters to the parents of the girls informing them that the girls were staying away from school.
According to the parents of the girls the teacher Vyas has been harassing the three girls for the past three months. Of these three one girl belongs to the Parsi community, while the other two were from the minority community.
Vyas a teacher in Nelson school situated in Shahpur was teaching four subjects in class XI commerce. Police officials said that in the complaints, the parents have stated that the teacher had for the past couple of months forced the three girls to accompany him to the market. He even touched their private parts and sexually harassed them.
Not able to cope up, the girls stopped going to school for the past one month.
The parents rushed to the school to talk to the management, but they failed to get a satisfactory reply from the authorities. Also, one of the three girls broke down and narrated incidents.
When the parents again went to the school to inform the authorities about the teacher, the authorities were missing. The parents then went to Shahpur police and registered a complaint against the teacher. The police acting on the complaint arrested the teacher.
The father of a girl said, "When the school failed to respond we were forced to file the complaint. We want the teacher to be suspended. Also the teacher has threatened to fail the girls if they informed any one and if they stopped him," he said.Link: Teacher held for molestation in Ahmedabad
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