PATNA: An FIR was lodged against a woman teacher of a Buddha Colony-based private school on Friday for allegedly sexually exploiting and thrashing a Class V boy inside the school premises.

Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Garima Malik said the FIR was lodged by the boy's mother with Buddha Colony police station. The victim's mother told TOI that the teacher had called her several times, pressuring not to approach police.

SHO of Buddha Colony police station Ravishankar Kumar Singh said, "The incident occurred on October 22, but the boy's mother complained to police on Friday. Since the school is closed on account of Chhath, none could be quizzed immediately."

In the FIR, the woman alleged that the teacher took the boy to her chamber and sexually exploited her. The woman also alleged that the teacher threatened her son of kicking out of the school if he complained to anyone against her. "When my son told the teacher that he will narrate everything to me, she beat him up. My son had high fever when he returned home on October 22," the woman said, adding she feared for his child's future as the teacher is a close relative of the school owner. The woman alleged that the teacher was sexually exploiting her son for the last two to three months.

"There were visible red patches on my son's back. I had taken him to PMCH on October 23 and the doctors said it was a police case. My son finally narrated his tale to me. I met the school director on October 25 and requested him to take action against the teacher. However, instead of taking action against the teacher, he threatened me of ruining my child's career. I finally gathered courage to approach the police today," she said.

This is second such incident in the state capital. Two former women teachers of St Xavier's High School - Nutan Joseph and Indu Anand - were sentenced to 10-year and seven-year rigorous imprisonment, respectively, by a special POCSO court on July 20 last year .

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect his privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)