Gurugram again, sweeper held for ‘molesting’ school girls in toilet

Sumedha Sharma

Tribune News Service

Gurugram, September 28

While the city is yet to forget the Ryan school horror yet another incident has left it rattled. A 33-year-old sweeper was arrested for trying to molest two class-3 students in a NGO-operated private school in the DLF area.

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Though the alleged incident occurred on Monday, the girls revealed narrated their ordeal only on Wednesday during a counselling session on ‘Good touch bad touch’ and the school authorities swung into action.

CCTV footage revealed the accused was not only following the girls but forcibly hugging them and trying to pull them inside toilet. Following this, school authorities approached police and handed over sweeper, Identified as
Suresh Kumar, to them.

“We had an anti-child abuse session in school and teachers and counsellors talked about the good and bad touch. It was after seeing the video that two class-3 students approached us and said Suresh had misbehaved with them in toilet. They alleged that while he grabbed their hands and pressed them behind their backs trying to hug them. The girls managed to come out but did not tell anybody,” the school said in a complaint to the police.

“We immediately reviewed CCTV footage and found Suresh following them while coming out of toilet and girls trying to avoid him. We called parents and accused in front of school’s POCSO Committee and he confessed,” the complaint said.

School principal Suprabha approached women police station and handed over the sweeper to them, filing a complaint of sexual assault on two students against him.

An FIR has been registered against sweeper under Section 10 (sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act at women police station while the victims were yet to reach police station to record their statements.