Nalasopara rape case: School principal, supervisor booked after Mid-Day expose

The Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar MBVV police have finally acted and booked the supervisor and principal of a Nalasopara school where a minor girl was repeatedly raped by a teacher since March This happened after midday highlighted errors in a POCSO case at Pelhar police station where the supervisor and principal were not namedThe survivorrsquos family thanked midday for their support ldquoThank you midday for helping usrdquo said the survivorrsquos brother ldquoI protested on August 13 because the police hadnrsquot named the supervisor and principal in the FIR but our demands were ignoredrdquo He added ldquoWe tried reaching local social workers and police officials but nothing changed After middayrsquos coverage I got a call from a police officer asking me to go to Pelhar police station to register a fresh FIRrdquoWhy principal and supervisor are bookedIn a new statement to the Pelhar police the 14yearold survivor said teacher Amit Dubey touched her inappropriately on August 14 2022 during a school rehearsal She complained to the supervisor but he ignored her ldquoAfter I complained against Dubey sir to the supervisor he told me lsquobeta tum galat soch rahi ho sir aise nahi hainhelliptum chhoti ho abhi vaisa mat sochorsquordquo reads the statement of the rape survivorAmit Dubey allegedly touched the survivor inappropriately for the first time in August 2022ldquoThen I approached the principal of the school and I narrated him my ordeal But he also replied the same saying lsquosir aise nahi hain tum galat soch rahi ho tumko aisa nahi sochna chahiyersquordquo alleged the rape survivor She has also alleged that she repeatedly complained to the principal but he ignored her ldquoThen I revealed everything to my brother who questioned the principal but the principal slapped himrdquo the rape survivor addedAfter the rape survivors brother told his mother he was slapped by the principal she confronted him The principal claimed the brother made false allegations ldquoSince my mother is innocent she believed the principal instead of usrdquo said the brother ldquoThe principal and supervisor suppressed the case since August 2022 This case invites an FIR under stringent sections of POCSO Act Had they acted against Amit Dubey then my sister wouldnrsquot have been raped Both are responsible which is why we protested on August 13rdquoHow matter came to lightThe matter surfaced only after the survivor fainted inside the school premises on August 7 ldquoShe had been lying unconscious for more than three hours from 9 am to 1230 pm at the school premises but the school management did not inform us considering that the matter will take legal route They had not even called in a doctor to treat my sisterrdquo he saidldquoThe school is located close from our house but the school management did not inform us I went to the school when she did not return I saw her lying unconscious on a couch We were shocked to see this as there was no doctor at all We were told by students that she had been lying there since 9 amrdquo he added ldquoThe school management insisted I take her home but I got her admitted to a nearby hospital where she told everything to the doctorrdquo the brother saidldquoThe doctor told us that she is making a serious allegation against a school teacher who has raped her multiple times since March So after she was discharged from the hospital we reached Pelhar police station wherethe cops had named only teacher Amit Dubey in an FIR on August 11 and had not defined the roles of the principal and supervisor in the crimerdquo he addedldquoSo on August 13 we staged a protest outside the school seeking legal action against the principal and supervisor But the cops acted promptly only after midday highlighted the issuerdquo he added The principal and the supervisor of the school have been booked under section 212 of POCSO Act and sections 1152 and 3512 of BNS 2023On Thursday the cops recorded the statements of the survivorrsquos brother and mother in connection with the case her fatherrsquos statement is yet to be recorded No new arrests have been made so far Pelhar police have served notices to the principal and supervisor of the school according to an officer familiar with the investigationldquoThe teacher Amit Dubey who molested my younger sister in 2022 when she was a 12yearold raped her multiple times in 2024 only because the principal and the supervisor continued to shield him Had strict legal action been taken against him after we complained against him we would not have to see these brutal days todayrdquo the brother asserted