PATNA: In a horrific twist to the case of disappearance of a +2 student of DAV Public School-BSEB Colony on February 28, the 17-year-old in her statement to a city court on Saturday said she was sexually assaulted by two youths while in their captivity till March 19.

In another major development, principal Ramanuj Prasad Singh and three teachers of the DAV school were named as accused in the FIR lodged earlier by police against the school management. The three teachers — Gaurang Dey , Sanatan Maharana and Pradeep Bharti – were on Friday arrested and forwarded to jail. The principal was made a co-accused after the three teachers in their statements to another court alleged his complicity in running a racket to dupe ‘needy’ students of hefty amounts in lieu of permissions to them to fill up forms for Board examinations.

The girl went missing after she along with her father had gone to the school to deposit fee. She went inside with Rs 62,000, came back, returned the money to her father and again went inside the school, not to return. The school authorities later allegedly told her desperate father that she had failed in Class XI and that she was no longer a student of the school.

Amid media outcry and after a whiplash from the Bihar Human Rights Commission, police recovered the girl from platform number 1 of Patna Junction where she was sitting alone around 8.30pm on Thursday.

The teachers and principal have been accused of extortion, blackmailing and abetting a girl to attempt suicide. “Our investigations so far suggest Gaurang on February asked for more money from the girl in lieu of her admit card for the CBSE +2 examinations. He had arranged the admit card even though she had ‘failed’ in Class XI examinations. We are lucky she did not commit suicide and instead chose not to return home in order to avoid parents’ wrath for her failure in Class XI,” said Patna SSP Jitender Rana.

Though principal Singh was grilled by police on Wednesday, he was not arrested till Saturday evening even after the murky disclosures made by his schoolteachers.

Asked about speculations that he was not being arrested under ‘pressure’ as he has appointed spouses of several bureaucrats as teachers in his school, the SSP said, “I repeat my words… Nobody will be spared. Please wait and watch.”

Sources said police have got evidence to suggest the accused teachers arranged at least 79 admit cards for ‘needy’ students to write the CBSE’s Class XII examinations this year. “They extorted anything between Rs 80,000 and Rs 1 lakh each from such students. The girl’s Facebook chat history indicates the schoolteachers used to trap students by maintaining lovey-dovey relations with them,” the SSP said.

The girl was medically examined on Saturday though the medical report was awaited. The sources quoted her as telling judicial magistrate I Kisku that she went to the CBSE office on Bailey Road after she left the school on February 28. As she failed to get the admit card even from the CBSE office, she came across two youths, approximately 19 and 25, who took her to a car, saying they would drop her at her home.

But they took her to a building under construction in Khagaul area. She later gained senses and found herself locked in a room where the two youths raped her. They changed their location thrice. They also gave her an old T-shirt to wear.

The newspaper clippings found in her bag were not of 20 days. They were select cuttings that spoke about the possibility of her elopement and painted her negative image, which further scared her. She was on Thursday dropped near the Gandhi Maidan from where she went to Patna Junction.

“She is under trauma and physically weak. She said she was not given meals regularly,” the SSP said and added police would investigate the matter in the light of her statement recorded before the judge.

