A 45-year-old headmaster of a private school under Rajnagar police station in Odisha’s Kendrapara district has been taken into custody by the local police for allegedly raping two minor girls in the school, police said on Friday.
The accused identified as Pramod Pradhan allegedly sexually assaulted two girl students on 16 January in the school. Both the victims, 13 years old, are students of Class VII, police said.
The shocking incident came to light when both the girls refused to go to the school and their parents inquired about the reason for their decision.
Being forced by the parents, both the victim girls confided the sequence of sexual torture inflicted upon by them by the accused teacher.
Acting on the FIR, the accused headmaster has been booked under Sections 376 (f), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (criminal Intimation) of IPC and Section 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) 2012, said Ajaya Kumar Jena, Inspector, Rajnagar Police Station.