Badlapur sexual assault: 2 school trustees arrested after court rap
HC noted that “prima facie there is material to show that the two accused were aware of the alleged incident before August 16, but they failed to take any steps”
Thane police have arrested the two accused school trustees in the Badlapur sexual assault case.
The arrests came a day after the Bombay High Court refused to grant pre-arrest bail to the school chairman and secretary and also come down heavily on the police for failing to arrest them so far.
No steps taken despite knowledge of incident: HC
Officials of the Thane crime branch nabbed the duo from Karjat on Wednesday (October 2), the police told the media, adding that they would be handed over to the special investigation team probing the alleged sexual assault of two kindergarten girls at the school at Badlapur in August.
The high court in its order on Tuesday noted that “prima facie there is material to show that the two accused were aware of the alleged incident before August 16, but they failed to take any steps to report the same to the police or local authority”.
Legal obligation to report POCSO offence
There is a legal obligation to report an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act if a person is aware of it, or is made aware of it, the court said.
The main accused in the case, sweeper Akshay Shinde, was killed in an alleged shoot-out with police on September 23.
(With agency inputs)
