Teacher held for raping student, forcing abortion

The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a school teacher Monday on charges of repeatedly raping a Class 12 student and forcing her to abort her child. The wife of the teacher and two woman doctors who performed the abortion on the 17-year-old have also been arrested.

As per the police, the teacher, R C Tiwari, 45, at a central government run school in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area, sexually exploited the girl for about four months. Threatening to fail her in exams if she did not cooperate, the teacher assaulted her every day and warned her not to tell her family. She was allegedly made to undergo termination of pregnancy at a private hospital on Lucknow’s IIM Road on January 10.

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Gomti Nagar Circle Officer Satya Sen Yadav said the girl’s father lodged an FIR on Sunday night and Tiwari, his wife Anita and two doctors, Aqsa Siddiqui and Vijayshree, were arrested Monday morning. Anita had carried the minor to the hospital. All four have been sent to jail, the CO said, adding that the girl’s father has alleged that she has been sexually exploited since October last year.

The school authorities suspended Tiwari Monday morning and initiated an inquiry.

Tiwari had joined the school in August 2013. Earlier, he stayed at a rented accommodation but moved into the residential colony of the school in December.