PATNA: In a twist to the reported scandal at a government school in Bihar’s Jehanabad district, police said on Tuesday that medical examination of the 12-year-old girl has confirmed that she was not raped.
“We investigated the allegations and the charge of rape was not confirmed. The medical examination report of the girl that came on Tuesday has clearly confirmed that she was not raped. Further probe is in progress,” said Aditya Kumar, superintendent of police of Jehanabad district.
The government-run Urdu middle school at Kako had shot to shame after it was reported that the school’s headmaster and three male teachers had raped the mentally challenged girl student on the school’s terrace on Sunday afternoon when classes at the school were on.
The four accused – headmaster Ajju Ahmed and assistant teachers Attaur Rahman, Abdul Bari and Mohammad Shakaut – have been absconding after an FIR about rape was lodged by the girl’s mother, who also happens to be a teacher at the school.
The girl’s mother had said in the FIR that on Sunday, when the school was kept open on the headmaster’s order, her 12-year-old daughter did not return to her classroom after recess was over. Some girls then saw her lying in a pool of blood on the terrace and alerted her, she said in the FIR.
“Further action is currently on. The SDPO has been asked to complete the probe in two days. If the case is found to be false, we will recommend appropriate action against the complainant,” said the SP.
The rape charges, coming a week after a 14-year-old schoolgirl was murdered after being gang-raped in her hostel in Vaishali district, had painted a woefully bad picture of the educational institutions in Bihar. “We are trying to find why the girl’s mother had lodged a complaint of rape against her four male colleagues at the school,” said a police official in Jehanabad.