India, July 12 -- The 40-year-old teacher from a prominent Mumbai school, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a Class 11 student, has claimed in her bail plea that she has been falsely implicated at the behest of the boy's mother, who disapproved of their relationship.

The English teacher, who is married and has two young children, was arrested under stringent provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. In her plea, filed earlier this week and scheduled for hearing on Monday, she has claimed that the relationship was consensual and mutual, and that the boy was "madly in love" with her.

She has submitted handwritten notes and text messages exchanged between them to bac...