NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old student was allegedly sodomized by his teacher on school premises on Friday, police said.

Police have arrested the accused teacher and registered an FIR under sections of unnatural sex of the IPC and protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) Act. The victim is a Class XI student at one of the oldest government-aided schools in central Delhi.

The teacher was produced before a magistrate and has been sent to Tihar jail, in judicial custody for fourteen days. Police said that the teacher had tried to assault the teenager, who is apparently differently-abled, last year as well but failed after the teenager started yelling for help. The matter was allegedly hushed up then.

The incident took place inside one of the classrooms of the school. On Friday, the teacher allegedly called the student to a vacant classroom on some pretext and forced himself upon him.

In his statement to the police, the teenager said that the teacher had been threatening fail him in his subject unless he succumbed to his demands. The teenager went home crying and narrated the incident to his family who then approached a member of the school's governing body and then informed the police.

The police immediately registered an FIR at Kamla Market police station. Based on the statement, the teacher was apprehended. A medical examination of the student confirmed that he was assaulted. The cops said they would file the chargesheet within a month. Other students of the school are being quizzed and the cops are trying to ascertain if the teacher assaulted other students as well.

The directorate of education has initiated an enquiry into the incident and constituted a three-member-panel. The accused teacher has been suspended. The school has been asked to submit a report at the earliest. Any negligence by other teachers and the school administration is being looked into as well.

