Principal booked in POCSO case
Mumbai, May 23 -- A 37-year-old college principal was booked for repeatedly making sexual advances on a 17-year old student. The Maharashtra Housing Board (MHB) colony police charged the accused under sections of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
Officials said that the student, a resident of south Mumbai, initially did not lodge a complaint, assuming the harassment would stop. When it continued for a year she confided in her family, saying the principal was pressuring her for an affair.
The MHB police said the case is under investigation. "We are recording statements of the girl's friends and scanning CCTVs of the college to verify the complaint," said an officer from the MHB colony police station....
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