Int’l community apprised of city climate action plan
The international climate community was apprised of the forthcoming Kolkata Climate Action Plan on the sidelines of the recently-concluded UN climate conference, COP-29, at Baku, Azerbaijan.
Protests erupted outside a convent school in Kolkata over the alleged sexual assault on a Class 2 girl student by a dance teacher.
As per media reports, the alleged sexual assault by the dance teacher was being going on for nearly a year. The issue came to light after the parents of the victim lodged a complaint with the school.
Police personnel were called in to control the crowd and one officer was also hurt as the mob of angry parents clashed with them.
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However, the teacher has been arrested and charged with relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) after the girl’s mother lodged a complaint with the police.
The mother got to know about the assault on Thursday after the girl refused to go to school. She was purportedly threatened by the accused to not tell about his deeds to anybody.
Several parents gathered outside the school on Friday and demanded tough action against the school’s principal and administrators, accusing them of negligence.
Parents alleged that the school had not installed CCTV cameras despite outrage and protests last year over the sexual assault of a four-year-old student by two teachers in Kolkata’s GD Birla school.
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