Surat teacher who kidnapped her 13-year-old student arrested, POCSO invoked; teenager rescued
The teacher and the student had gone missing on April 25 and were last seen in a CCTV footage at Surat Railway Station.
The teacher and the student had gone missing on April 25 and were last seen in a CCTV footage at Surat Railway Station. Six days after they went missing from their respective homes, police have arrested a 23-year-old teacher and rescued her 13-year-old student after intercepting them in a bus at Shamlaji on Gujarat-Rajasthan border, officers said.
Surat police have arrested the teacher after registering an offence of rape against her and invoking POCSO sections in the case, they added.
The teacher and the student had gone missing on April 25 and were last seen in a CCTV footage at Surat Railway Station.
Police sources said the teacher had been offering tuition to the student for the last few years. On April 26, the boy’s father had lodged a complaint of kidnapping against the teacher following which police had started a probe in the matter.
On Tuesday, police received information that the teacher and the student were returning to Gujarat in a private luxury bus from Jaipur, Rajasthan. A team of Surat police intercepted the bus and brought the teacher and the boy back to the city.
After primary interrogation, police said they learnt that the woman had established physical relations with the boy following which POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act’s sections 8, 4 and 12 were added in the existing kidnapping complaint against the teacher who was later arrested.
On Tuesday afternoon, police carried out a medical examination of the accused teacher at SMIMER hospital.
Talking to The Indian Express, a police inspector connected with the probe said, “The teacher and the teenager spent some time at the Surat Railway station but could not get on a train, following which she took him to a bus stand. The teacher had carried along Rs 25,000 from her savings and her clothes, while the boy was empty handed when he left home. They reached Ahmedabad and put up in a hotel after which they went to Delhi and then to Jaipur. The woman and the boy were returning to Gujarat when our team reached them after getting a tip-off.”
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