Bengaluru school teacher arrested for molestation

Bengaluru, Jan 7: A physical training teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly molesting a seven-year-old girl student here after a mob of about 200 parents and residents ransacked the private school and thrashed the man, police said. "We have arrested the teacher Krishna of Venkateshwara School under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and POCSO Act on a complaint by the girl's parents, accusing him of molesting their girl," Additional Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar told reporters. When the protest by the mob for handing over the teacher to them turned violent, police resorted to caning the mob and lobbed teargas shells to disperse them. The city has witnessed massive protests by the public since July over a series of sexual assaults on girl students in private schools, mostly by some employees, including physical instructors, attendants and a class teacher.