Jammu, April 21 -- A government school teacher was apprehended for allegedly demanding sexual favours from a minor student by threatening to fail her in the internal examination in the Doda district, said officials on Sunday.

The action against the teacher was taken following registration of a complaint on April 16, a police officer said.

He said the accused sent messages to the student, seeking sexual favours for facilitating her admission in medical stream in a Punjab college and claimed that he had already done so with some other girls as well.

He allegedly threatened the student not to disclose it to anyone, otherwise she would never pass the internal examination, the officer said.

A case under sections 74 (assault or criminal for...