Tiruvannamalai govt schoolteacher sentenced to rigorous
TNN | Dec 4, 2018, 07.25 PM IST
TIRUVANNAMALAI: A fast track mahila court in Tiruvannamalai on Monday sentenced a 38-year-old government schoolteacher to seven years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old orphan girl.
The victim was a Class VIII student at Adi Annamalai Panchayat Union Middle School in Tiruvannamalai in 2013. Her English teacher, N Soundararajan, who was married and has two children, sexually assaulted her several times.
The victim was an inmate of a children’s home on the Girivalam path. She was admitted to the home by her elder brother and elder sister when she was three years old after their parents had died.
Special public prosecutor G Archana said, “The accused, who was initially molesting the girl in the staff room while he was alone, later started taking her to his home when his wife and children were away. The sexual assault came to light on February 20, 2013 after Soundararajan, who was 33 then, forcibly took her home the previous night by threatening to fail her in English paper in the annual examination.”
“He sexually assaulted the girl the whole night and dropped her near the children’s home situated on the Girivalam path in Tiruvannamalai in the early hours of February 20,” Archana said.
The in-charge of the children’s home questioned the girl and came to know about the sexual assault she had suffered. The in-charge alerted the girl’s sister who was married and living about one kilometre away from the home.
The sister filed a complaint with the Tiruvannamalai all-woman police. The police booked him under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ( POCSO) Act and the IPC. Police sources said Soundararajan was the first person to be booked under the POCSO Act in Tiruvannamalai district after the law came into force in November 2012.
On Monday, magistrate S Natarajan sentenced him to seven years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of 10,000 on him. The magistrate also directed the district legal service authority to assist the girl in getting a victim compensation of Rs 4 lakh under the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) scheme.
imprisonment for sexual assault of orphan girl
TNN | Dec 4, 2018, 07.25 PM IST
TIRUVANNAMALAI: A fast track mahila court in Tiruvannamalai on Monday sentenced a 38-year-old government schoolteacher to seven years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old orphan girl.
The victim was a Class VIII student at Adi Annamalai Panchayat Union Middle School in Tiruvannamalai in 2013. Her English teacher, N Soundararajan, who was married and has two children, sexually assaulted her several times.
The victim was an inmate of a children’s home on the Girivalam path. She was admitted to the home by her elder brother and elder sister when she was three years old after their parents had died.
Special public prosecutor G Archana said, “The accused, who was initially molesting the girl in the staff room while he was alone, later started taking her to his home when his wife and children were away. The sexual assault came to light on February 20, 2013 after Soundararajan, who was 33 then, forcibly took her home the previous night by threatening to fail her in English paper in the annual examination.”
“He sexually assaulted the girl the whole night and dropped her near the children’s home situated on the Girivalam path in Tiruvannamalai in the early hours of February 20,” Archana said.
The in-charge of the children’s home questioned the girl and came to know about the sexual assault she had suffered. The in-charge alerted the girl’s sister who was married and living about one kilometre away from the home.
The sister filed a complaint with the Tiruvannamalai all-woman police. The police booked him under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ( POCSO) Act and the IPC. Police sources said Soundararajan was the first person to be booked under the POCSO Act in Tiruvannamalai district after the law came into force in November 2012.
On Monday, magistrate S Natarajan sentenced him to seven years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of 10,000 on him. The magistrate also directed the district legal service authority to assist the girl in getting a victim compensation of Rs 4 lakh under the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) scheme.
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