AMN / NEW ELHI
Counsel for the private school where four year old girl was allegedly raped by classmate has suggested that alleged rape victim could have been tutored.
Rajappa Srinivasan, the legal advisor of the reputed school in Delhi where a four-year-old has been allegedly sexually assaulted, claimed that the allegations made by the child could have been been “taught”.
“Children are children, they can be taught. They can be made to say things” he said to media portal.
Rajappa Srinivasan, the legal advisor of the school in Delhi where a 4-year-old was sexually assaulted by her classmate.
In the incident, which came into light on 23 November 2017, a classmate of the four-year-old girl had allegedly inserted his finger and a sharpened pencil into her, injuring her private parts, while on school premises on 17 November.
Responding to Rajappa’s claim, the girl’s mother said: It is not possible for a mother to teach her daughter to tell the world that she has been sexually assaulted. If my daughter was tutored, she would say it once and not narrate the incident with the same references repeatedly.
Rajappa initially said there is no prima facie evidence to prove the allegation made by the four-year-old. He said, “The possibility of such an incident is remote.”
In a bizarre incident, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy has been accused of inserting a finger and a sharpened pencil into the private parts of a classmate within the premises of a Delhi school.
The mother of the girl has said that the family will seek strict action in the incident. The mother has blamed the school for neglecting security of the students.
The case is a complicated one. Legal experts say the boy cannot be indicted according to section 82 of the IPC, which states that no child under the age of seven can be prosecuted.
The four-year-old girl told her mother that the boy unbuttoned her pants and inserted his finger and a sharpened pencil into her private parts, leaving her injured.
She said the incident occurred inside the school washroom. Authorities are checking CCTV camera footage to verify whether it showed the boy entering the girl’s washroom.
The mother has alleged that there was no teacher or staff in the washroom to assist the minor girl.
The minor girl complained of abdomen pain after returning from school.
The girl’s parents informed a teacher at the school through a text message on 17 November. She was taken to Rockland Hospital, Dwarka, West Delhi on 18 November.The hospital confirmed sexual assault.