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Pune: In quite an ironically heinous incident, a Pune school teacher responsible for sensitising students about ‘good touch, bad touch’ was arrested on Monday for allegedly molesting four minor boy students. The 40-year-old teacher was reportedly also the sports trainer at the school and was arrested by the Hadapsar police on charges of sexual assault against four Class 9 male students on multiple occasions over the past five months.

The police said that the teacher was a member of the school’s awareness programme to enlighten students about inappropriate touching and raise awareness against sexual harassment. As per Police inspector Sunil Tambe, the teacher is to be produced before a court on Tuesday.

Tambe told Hindustan Times that the teacher had joined the school about seven years ago and that the investigation into the matter was initiated after evidence regarding the assault against the four boys was collected.

In another incident of brutality at the hands of school teachers, a teacher at a school in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district left a Class 2 student severely injured after poking his eye with her fingernail.

In another case, an 8-year-old student of Class 3 at an Uttar Pradesh school after being mercilessly thrashed by his teacher, died as his ribs were left broken after the brutal corporal punishment. In Maharashtra, earlier this month, another same-aged boy was beaten and locked up in the school washroom by his teacher.

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