Two held for molesting Australian woman in Uttar PradeshSeptember 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men were arrested Saturday for allegedly molesting a 37-year-old Australian woman in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said. The incident took place Saturday in the Collectorganj locality in Kanpur when the woman with her husband was going to meet their friends in the locality, police added.
Principal molests girl student in Uttar PradeshSeptember 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The principal of a private school has been accused of molesting a Class 9 girl student in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, police said Saturday. U.M. Montessori principal Pramod Kumar Gaur, 45, Friday called the 14-year-old girl to his office and forced her to sit on his lap.
Postal officials booked for molesting colleagueAugust 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three postal officials, including a chief postmaster, in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district have been booked for allegedly molesting a woman colleague, provoking her to attempt suicide, police said Monday. "V. Ram, the chief postmaster, and two others working at the Postmaster General's Office in Gorakhpur face multiple criminal cases that were registered against them on Sunday evening on a complaint filed by the 32-year-old employee," police inspector Vijay Singh told IANS over phone.
Two teachers booked for molesting studentAugust 13th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district have been booked for allegedly molesting a Class 8 student, police said Thursday. Ganesh Singh and S.K.
School principal held for molesting teachersAugust 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A principal of a private school in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for allegedly molesting two teachers of the same school, police said Tuesday. "P.N. Singh, principal of St.
Madhya Pradesh teacher held for molesting minor studentsJuly 29th, 2009 BHOPAL - A teacher accused of molesting tribal girl students of Class 3 and 5 was arrested Wednesday in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, police said. Sanjeev Sharma, posted in a school run under the Shiksha Guarantee Scheme in tribal-dominated Nupur Tapra village, had July 24 stripped girls in a closed room under the pretext of taking measurement for their school uniform.
Illicit liquor making unit busted in Uttar Pradesh schoolJuly 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police have busted a spurious liquor manufacturing unit that was operating from a school in a town in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district and recovered 560,000 litres of illicit liquor, officials said Wednesday. "Huge stock of spurious liquor was recovered during the raids conducted late Tuesday at the Siddharth Convent School in Chaksadar town in Ghazipur," police inspector D.P.
Headmaster commits suicide in Chhattisgarh schoolJune 22nd, 2009 RAIPUR - A government school headmaster committed suicide in his official chamber in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police said Monday. Banshidhar Sahu, 50, visited the school Sunday, opened his office chamber and ended his life by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in Koliyari village of Dhamtari, 80 km from state capital Raipur.
Kanpur hospital employee held for molesting French touristJune 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - An employee of a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town was arrested Monday for allegedly molesting a 24-year-old French tourist, police said. "The employee with the Hailet hospital in Kanpur district molested the French girl, whose fiance is undergoing treatment for diarrhoea in the hospital," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Kanpur H.R.
5 Haryana teachers jailed for pilfering students' fundsMarch 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Saying it was meant to serve as a deterrent, a court in Haryana has jailed five teachers for seven years for siphoning off funds meant for providing mid-day meals to government school students. The teachers, including a headmaster, have been charged with siphoning off funds for providing mid-day meals to poor students of a government primary school near Safidon town in Jind district, 250 km from here.
Protesters outside Bishop Cotton School baton charged by policeMarch 21st, 2009 SHIMLA - At least three people were injured when the police baton-charged activists of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), trying to enter the famous Bishop Cotton School (BCS) in this Himachal Pradesh capital Friday. 'The protest suddenly turned violent, which resulted in a clash between the police and the protesters,' superintendent of police R.M.
Three teachers held for sexually exploiting school childrenMarch 19th, 2009 SHIMLA - Three teachers, including a school principal, were arrested Wednesday in the Himachal Pradesh capital on charges of sexual exploitation of six deaf and dumb children, the police said. 'Three teachers were arrested for sexually exploiting six deaf and dumb girls of a school run by Prerna (an NGO) in Shimla,' Superintendent of Police R.M.
Headmaster held after Class 5 student alleges molestationFebruary 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The headmaster of a government run school in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested after a 12-year-old student alleged that he had molested her in an empty classroom. Ram Yadav, headmaster of the Muzaffarpur Primary School in Azamgarh, about 300 km from here, has been accused of molesting the Class 5 student Tuesday, police said Thursday.
School wall collapses in Uttar Pradesh, 30 students injuredJanuary 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Thirty students were injured, four of them critically, when a wall collapsed in a school in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh Monday, the police said. 'The incident took place at around 3 p.m.
Four children dead in Uttar Pradesh accidentDecember 23rd, 2008 LUCKNOW - Four school children died and four others were injured when the school van they were travelling in was hit by a roadways bus in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday morning, the police said. The accident took place in Kutubsher locality in Saharanpur, some 350 km from here, when the van was ferrying the children to school.