, April 20 -- JAMMU: A school teacher was apprehended for allegedly alluring and demanding sexual favours from a minor student by threatening to fail her in the internal examination in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday.

The action against the teacher, posted at the Government Higher Secondary School Bhaderwah, was taken following registration of a complaint on April 16, a police spokesman said.

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

He allegedly threatened the student not to disclose it to anyone, otherw...