In the New Delhi rape case justice is something that is very difficult to attain.
Khushi Shah – Mumbai Uncensored, 5th May 2022
Civic body run schools have students up to grade 5. On April 30, after the school assembly, while the students were waiting for their teacher inside the class an unknown man allegedly entered the classroom in East Delhi and sexually assaulted two girls before undressing himself and urinating in front of the students.
The incident was confirmed by Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal who demanded immediate investigation regarding the eight-year-old girls that were molested. “In an MCD run school in Bhajanpura area, two girl students sitting inside their class were molested by an unknown person. He went to their class and removed the clothes of the girls. He then removed his clothes and urinated in front of the class,” said Swati Maliwal.
An incident like this that occurred in the sacred temple of education, was not only nefarious and obscene but was also attempted to be covered up by the school administration. “When the girls briefed teachers and principal about the incident, they tried to hide it and asked girls to forget about it,”
Such an incident comes under the jurisdiction of the POCSO Act, where an action should be taken against the school principal and class teacher for not reporting the crime to the Delhi Police and attempting to conceal the same. The POCSO act is a comprehensive law enacted with the objective of protecting children from a slew of sexual offences while safeguarding the interests of the child at every stage of the judicial process by introducing a child-friendly mechanism for reporting.
According to Sanjay Sain, Northeast DCP, a special committee has been created to look into the problem. On the basis of the schoolgirls statements, a sketch of the suspect was created. Two suspects have also been identified based on this information. The police have filed a charge under the POCSO Act following a preliminary inquiry into the occurrence of the girls being stripped and naked. According to the DCP, it is a municipal school with no CCTV installed. However, CCTV footage from a nearby location is being examined in order to identify the suspect. Technical teams have been dispatched to help the police station’s officers.
The incident of sexual harassment inside the school premises is shocking. The heinous crime took place in broad daylight in the East Municipal Corporation school and instead of reporting it, the principal and teachers of the school tried to suppress the matter. These traditional differences in mindsets often hide the nature and extent of rape in society. Most rape stories do not come out due to tractors like shame to victims and the institutes concerned with reputation.
