Bangalore school defends its chairman

Bangalore city police arrested, Rustom Kerawala, chairman of the east Bangalore school, on Wednesday in connection with the rape of a six-year-old girl inside school premises on July 2.

Kerawala was arrested from union territory Daman on Tuesday and is being brought to Bangalore for further investigation.

City police commissioner MN Reddi said that Kerawala has been booked for destruction of evidence (section 201 of IPC) and delay in the reporting the crime against a child in his school (under section 23 of Juvenile Justice Act) and failure to protect the child an negligence (section 21 of POCSO Act). The six-year-old was raped on July 2 but the case was reported only on July 17. "Prima facie there has been a failure to report the case and the failure to protect the child, so we have gone ahead with the arrest," MN Reddi said.


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