Civil court, considered it extremely disgusting and rarest of the rare

AGENCIES / PATNA

The Patna Civil Court on Monday sentenced a school’s principal to death for raping a 11-year-old girl student for a month.

Another teacher of the school was also sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of helping the principal get in touch with the girl students.

According to reports, Raj Singhania alias Arvind Kumar, the principal of New Central Public School of Phulwari Sharif area in Patna was sentenced to death for raping the minor girl on the pretext of increasing marks.

The case has been going on since September 2018 and it is not yet known how many such incidents might have happened with the girl students who studied under the principal.

While hearing the case, the civil court, considered it extremely disgusting and rarest of the rare. The principal even harassed those brought this case to the fore.

The rape incident came to light after the minor became pregnant and told the entire thing to her parents, following which the the victim’s family lodged an FIR at Phulwari Sharif police station, and later both the accused were arrested.

In her statement, the minor victim said that Principal Arvind often tried to touch her incorrectly, however, she was scared to tell anyone anything about it. And, one day at school, the principal called her in his cabin when the other teacher named Abhishek was also present and later she was raped inside the cabin