Odisha: Class 7 girls allege molestation, teacher detained
Press Trust of India | July 26, 2025 | 08:23 PM IST | 1 min read
Marine police station at Talchua has detained the accused teacher after the headmaster of Naga Narayan high school in Dangamal informed the police of the teacher's advances on a group of class 7 girl students.
KENDRAPARA: Police on Saturday said they have detained a teacher of a government-run high school in Odisha's Kendrapara district for allegedly molesting a group of girl students.
The incident has sparked outrage in the coastal village of Dangamal. Marine police station at Talchua has detained the accused teacher after the headmaster of Naga Narayan high school in Dangamal informed the police of the teacher's advances on a group of class 7 girl students.
"We have detained the accused and are interrogating him. However no FIR has been lodged in this connection. We are in touch with parents of the victim girls and they have consented to file a complaint in this connection," inspector-in-charge of Talchua marine police station Bimal Mallick said.
Mallick, however, refused to give further details keeping in view the sensitive nature of the case.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms
- PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools
- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story
- JK Lakshmipat University VC on education in AI era: ‘Every course, every classroom must evolve’
- CBSE Curriculum 2026-27: Three-language policy is ‘compulsory Hindi’, says Tamil Nadu CM; criticism online