Akola: Teacher arrested for showing pornographic videos to girl students,

Akola: A 47-year-old government school teacher has been arrested in Maharashtra’s Akola district after some girl students accused him of harassing them by showing pornographic videos. The accused teacher Pramod Sardar has also been dismissed from service, Zila Parishad Chief Executive Officer B Vaishnavi said. The development comes amid protests over the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls at a school in Badlapur town near Mumbai.
The alleged crime by the teacher came to light after the girl students called the toll-free number of the Child Welfare Committee. Members of the committee visited the school on Tuesday morning and spoke to some of the girls, following which a case was registered against the teacher for outraging the dignity of women and sexual harassment. According to the FIR lodged at the Ural police station under the Indian Penal Code (BNS) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, six girl students have complained that the teacher had been showing them pornographic videos for the past four months, a police official said on Tuesday.