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Minor girl sexual assault at Dudhpushkarini School: DEOs proactive role helps finding truth
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Minor girl sexual assault at Dudhpushkarini School: DEOs proactive role helps finding truth
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Dudhpushkarini/ Udaipur, February 27(TIWN): District Education Officer(In Charge) , Gomati District Lakshman Chandra Das's proactive and efficient role helped in finding the truth of the involvement of Chandan Paul, a teacher of Dudhpushkarini School(Primary Unit), in his rape attempt against his student, a minor girl reading in Class-V in this school. It is learnt that Lakshman Das played a crucial role soon after getting the complaint and accordingly he sent reports to the Director of School Education P K Chakraborty and as per this report guilty teacher Chandan Paul had already been suspended.

 It is to be mentioned here that Chandan Paul is now having his 14 days jail custody since Wednesday.  Already departmental inquiry is being conducted in this incident and according to TIWN source the inquiry reports revealed that the accused lodged against Chandan Paul are true. On Wednesday a full team of District Level Complaint Committed on Sexual and Other Harassment against Women at Work Place led by DEO Gomati Lakshman Chandra Das went to the victim girl's house and met her and her parents. The victim girl Pinki Debnath and her father Samir Debnath and mother Namita Debnath (all covered name) gave their statement before the inquiry team. The District Level Complaint Committee on Sexual Harassment against Women at Workplace comprised of Chairman cum Palatana H S School Headmistress Jhuma Deb, Udaipur English Medium H S School Asst Headmistress Manidipa Majumder, Headmistress of Kalikishore H S School Sutapa Sur, Atashi Chakraborty, a UDC of DEO Gomati's Office along with DEO Gomati. TIWN source said that the preliminary investigation clearly indicated that the accused teacher indeed made the sexual attempt on the girl in the school.  The team recorded the statement of the victim as well as her parents. The entire statement was recorded through videography, said TIWN source. During the inquiry the victim girl told the team that on 20th February, Friday morning the accused teacher Chandan Paul took the girl in a vacant classroom as the class broke off. And taking the advantage of her loneliness Chandan Paul made a rape attempt and even touched the private parts of the girl. However, after sometime when Chandan heard someone coming he left the class room leaving the girl inside the class. The inquiry team was shocked to record the statement. Her parents told the team that initially they didn't think of anything like this. But after a day or two when the girl started to behave in somewhat mysterious way, her mother put pressure on her and lodged the complaint in the Kakraban Police Station on Tuesday.  Immediately after getting the complaint Kakraban Police arrested the guilty on Tuesday afternoon and produced him before the court on Wednesday.  On Thursday the team again visited Kakraban Police Station and met with the police officials and Investigating Officer to verify the statements recorded by the police. And both the statement brought out similar facts. And on Thursday afternoon after getting the reports of the District Level Complaint Committee DEO Gomati Lakshman Das sent the report along with the video statement to the Director of School Education. Meanwhile, TIWN's investigating team came to know about more mysterious facts while doing investigation on this incident. TIWN came to know that Headmistress of Dudhpushkarini School is always showing soft corner towards Chandan Paul and for this his involvement in various other illegal incidents was growing day by day. Even the HM Minati Karmakar is having an affair with Chandan Paul. Even more than a year before Chandan Paul was physically harassed by a section of parents and local people for making a molestation attempt but due to his illegal affair with the HM Minati Karmakar, Chandan Paul avoided from being punished.

 However, speaking to this correspondent over phone Officer In charge of Kakraban Police station Jatindra Das said ," We have investigated in this incident and our preliminary report suggest that Chandan Paul is indeed guilty. What we feel is that during his one night stay in the police custody we have not seen any kind of repentance on his face regarding his miss deeds. Rather, Chandan seemed to be normal. ". OC further said that police registered a case against Chandan Paul under Section 376(2)(F)(I) of IPC and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Harassment Act 2012. Jatindra Das also said that even before several complaints were raised against him but Deputy Director could do nothing as all these allegations were made verbally. He said even after committing such heinous act Chandan didn't show any kind of repentance about it.

 Being totally shocked with this crime local people, irrespective of political identities, as well as the parents of Dudhpushkarini School demanded stringent punishment for Chandan Paul (50) . Local people told TIWN," At last he was caught red handed. But over the years school authorities put a black cloth on their eyes simply to suppress his illegal activities.

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