Jodhpur: Police in Rajasthan have registered a case after a class 11 student alleged that she was stripped and sexually assaulted by her own classmates on the first day of school in Jodhpur last week.
The student who joined the Sohanlal Manihar Girls Senior Secondary School on July 8, has told the police that she was forced into a bathroom, stripped, beaten and also touched inappropriately by her own classmates who wanted to haze her as she was a new student.
The police have registered a case under the against the accused - all of them students of class 11 - and the school administration who allegedly did not report the matter to the police.
"This incident has left me shattered and without a desire to live... The virus of ragging has now reached schools and strict steps should be taken to put an end to it," she wrote.
The victim has undergone a medical examination and will record her statement before a magistrate.
The school administration has said they ordered an inquiry into the incident three days later but could not find any proof that it had happened.
"We have set up a second inquiry and suspended the accused students till it is complete," said Hari Gopal Rathi, secretary of the Mahesh Shikshan Sansthan which manages the school.
The student who joined the Sohanlal Manihar Girls Senior Secondary School on July 8, has told the police that she was forced into a bathroom, stripped, beaten and also touched inappropriately by her own classmates who wanted to haze her as she was a new student.
The police have registered a case under the against the accused - all of them students of class 11 - and the school administration who allegedly did not report the matter to the police.
"This incident has left me shattered and without a desire to live... The virus of ragging has now reached schools and strict steps should be taken to put an end to it," she wrote.
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The victim has undergone a medical examination and will record her statement before a magistrate.
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The school administration has said they ordered an inquiry into the incident three days later but could not find any proof that it had happened.
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"We have set up a second inquiry and suspended the accused students till it is complete," said Hari Gopal Rathi, secretary of the Mahesh Shikshan Sansthan which manages the school.
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