Jalandhar: Music teacher sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for sexually harassing minor girls
PTC News Desk: A special for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Court (POCSO) on Tuesday sentenced a music teacher to 20 years of imprisonment on the charges of sexually harassing minor girls.
The convict identified as Tobias Thapar was posted at a convent school in Jalandhar city. He was arrested by the Jalandhar Cantt police on May 25 last year on the complaint of the family of a 12-year-old victim.
Jalandhar district attorney Anil Kumar Boparai said the police filed a chargesheet against the accused within three months of his arrest on July 1 last year.
“The probe team carried out a minute investigation in the matter, besides collecting corroborative evidence and chemical examination reports required to take this case to a logical conclusion,” he said.
Whie the chargesheet was filed based on one complaint, Thapar later confessed to sexually harrassingthree-four more girls, studying in class 4 and 5 of the same school. “CCTV footage of different areas of the school were collected in which the accused teacher could be seen taking the victims to a secluded canteen,” the chargesheet added.
In a written statement, the victim’s mother alleged that the accused used to call her daughter to an old canteen room and used to molest her and assault her sexually.
“The accused was assaulting the victim for the past few months and even threatened to kill her if she dared to reveal anything to anyone,” said the complaint.
- PTC NEWS
