Bhopal: A school teacher in Madhya Pradesh was arrested on Friday on charges of sexually assaulting at least five students.
According to police, families of five children have come out to complain against 25-year-old Satyam Raghuvanshi, a social science teacher at a private school in Vidisha district.
Besides taking regular classes in school, Raghuvanshi also used to give private tuitions to students of classes 1 to 8.
Word spread on Thursday that the teacher abused his students.
“After parents came to know about it, they confronted their wards. At least five children confirmed that Raghuvanshi used to stop them after tuition classes and sexually assaulted them. He threatened the children that if they told anyone, he would kill their family or fail them in the exams at school,” Vidisha Superintendent of Police Rohit Keshwani said.
After the parents filed a police complaint against Raghuvanshi, a medical examination of the students confirmed sexual assault, the SP informed.
Raghuvanshi, arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act, is being interrogated.
He is married and has a one-year-old child.
According to the parents, Raghuvanshi has been working in the school for three years and had been assaulting the children for a long time. “The actual number of his victims is about 20 but due to social stigma, the rest are not coming forward,” said one of the parents who filed a police complaint, adding that there was a need to provide these traumatised children proper counselling.
