School headmaster held over obscene messages to student in Odisha
Press Trust of India | March 11, 2022 | 05:40 PM IST | 1 min read
The headmaster of a school was arrested for allegedly sending obscene messages to a 14-year-old girl student in Kalahandi, Odisha.
BHAWANIPATNA: The headmaster of a school was arrested for allegedly sending obscene messages to a 14-year-old girl student in Odisha's Kalahandi district, police said on Friday.
The headmaster had been constantly sending vulgar messages to the teenager through WhatsApp and other media platforms. The accused also threatened the girl that she would be rusticated from the school and murdered if she informed anyone about his overtures. The student finally informed a woman teacher, following which the headmaster was arrested on Thursday night.
In other news, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed police to probe the allegation of sexual harassment against a professor at the National Law Institute University (NLIU) Bhopal. Chouhan also asked to include a woman police officer in the investigations.
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