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| 'Sexploitation: Accused teacher continues to take girls for cultural shows | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 29: Even though the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) received a formal complaint against the teacher accused of having introduced the schoolgirls to an outsider, who wanted them to perform at "private venue at a secluded house", she continues to formally take more and more government schoolgirls for "cultural shows". Official sources said even after starting an "internal inquiry" into the complaint filed by parents of the schoolgirls, the DSEK assigned the accused teacher with the task of taking schoolgirls to perform at "cultural" shows. In the latest, when the inquiry was midway, this accused teacher was given the assignment of taking the schools girls for the rehearsals of the cultural show for Republic Day celebrations and also for the final performances that were held at Bakshi Stadium here. "She was assigned the sensitive task of the being the guardian of the schoolgirls," the official sources said. They said some of the concerned officials had tried to convey to the higher ups in the Directorate of School Education Kashmir that it would be "inappropriate" to assign her the work of taking care schoolgirls for cultural shows when she was already under scanner. "But we were told to keep quiet and that it was being done to show to the world that the department has full faith in this teacher," the insiders told Early Times.
Officials said the way the DSEK handled the case was brazen violation of norms. "As per the protocol for such sensitive cases, the convention has been that the accused teacher and the school principal had to be placed immediately under suspension but in this case the department remained concerned to safeguard the two as they happen to enjoy political patronage," said a source.
But a senior official in the department supported the decision of having made the accused teacher accompany schoolgirls to cultural shows when inquiry was under process. "She hasn't been proved guilty, so why should we stop her (from such activities)," the official said.
Meanwhile, the inquiry officer in its departmental inquiry report as filed by the DSEK has termed the matter 'very simple' stating that the role of the man who has been accused of being imposter has been "dragged into a controversy with no substantial base of his unpleasant role in making of all this".
The DSEK has termed the outsider as "theaterist", who was introduced to the teenage girls. "(Name withheld) madam has been instrumental in giving the contact number of the theaterist (accused of being imposter) to the girl students out of goodwill with no intention to malign or undermine the girl students in any way," reads the inquiry report, adding that the complainant has been getting impatiently suspicious about the conduct of artist with no plausible reason to substantiate her allegation. "We feel that the matter has been blown out of proportion by the complainant as she is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. It is our considered opinion, that the case be closed as unfounded," reads the report, a copy of which lies with Early Times.
The report further states that the 'vested interests' and the forces inimical to the Department of Education are hell bent upon tarnishing the image of the Department by leveling fake, frivolous and fictitious complaints.
The inquiry team has also questioned the accused schoolteacher. "She(teacher) denied to have met (him accused) earlier and informed that she has no acquaintance with him. She further said that during District Level competition of Kala-Utsav at Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothibagh some three months ago, (he) who was sitting in the audience wanted to interview the girl students of Amirakadal School who had participated in a skit where one of the girls played the role of a mother," the inquiry report states.
"She also gave the cell number (of accused man) to the girl students to make further contact with him for the purpose. The girl students were asked to get in touch with the person of their own as the activity does not fall within the purview of the School Management," the inquiry report states. But the formal complaint, which the government received from parents, has accused the teacher of "serious charges". The complaint states that the accused teacher had introduced the girls to the man who pretended to be Director Radio Kashmir. He had subsequently asked the students to accompany him to New Theed Harwan for "performance". "But only I entered into the house at New Theed wherein I found six youths above 20 years old and I returned outside and cried and took both the students back to (school) where I narrated the whole episode to the principal of the school."
Mother said in the complaint, "Had I not returned from said house and carried the students along with me, there would have been caused some problem for these students. In this way the mother of the complainant herein developed fear about the daughters in the school." Sources have been saying that some politicians were trying to influence the education department to get the case diluted. |
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