DPS School Greater Noida primary school girl student allegedly raped , police arrests accused
Saurabh Kumar
A three and a half year old girl was allegedly raped by a swimming instructor at school premises of a very reputed Gama-I, Greater Noida situated DPS school. Following which yesterday police had arrested the accused who worked as a lifeguard at the swimming in the school. He has been charged under Section 376 of the IPC and section of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO).
The accused was identified as Chandi Das, 42, a native of Burdwan in West Bengal, was arrested by Surajpur police on Saturday after the girl’s parents lodged a complaint alleging that he committed the rape on Thursday morning. The girl child told her parents about the incident after she felt pain in her abdomen and private parts while attending to nature’s call.
As per the police complaint girls parents mention that when our daughter returned back from school she complained of severe pain in abdomen. We took her to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Delhi for a medico-legal test. The medical examination had confirmed the sexual assault with her. We took her next day to the school where she pointed out to Chandi Das and started crying,” the girl’s father said in his complaint.
“Other staff of the school also told us that the lifeguard had done some bad things to our daughter on Thursday,” the complaint said.
The girl, who was enrolled in the nursery class this year, lives with her parents in a residential pocket of Greater Noida. Her father works as a general manager in a private company and her mother is a teacher in another Greater Noida-based school).
The police said that they had a medical test done on the girl that found signs of force having been applied on her private parts. The police picked up Das from his temporary accommodation in a Greater Noida residential society.
School staff claimed that Das also used to teach horse-riding to children and that he had been a part of the school for at least a decade. “We have never heard of any complaint against him in the past so many years,” said a security guard at the school.
The school management defended the lifeguard and termed the allegations false and baseless.
“Recent media reports claiming that a four-year-old girl student being raped at our school are totally baseless and without any proof. He was not our employee and was a lifeguard at the swimming pool. The alleged incident occurred on Thursday when the girl child reported pain in her abdomen to her parents. On receiving a verbal complaint from them about a purported sexual assault on the child by the lifeguard, the school administration swung into action and immediately coordinated with the local police and got the accused taken into custody,” said the school principal.
