MEERUT: The owner of the school, where 17 girls of class 10 were allegedly sedated and molested, was arrested on Tuesday.
While assistant superintendent of police (Sadar) Krishna Kumar claimed that the special operations group arrested the accused, sources in the police say he surrendered at Purkazi police station. He was produced in court on Wednesday and has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days, till December 21.
A victim's statement was recorded in front of a special Pocso magistrate on Tuesday, cops said.
Police had booked the owners of two schools in Muzaffarnagar under various sections of the IPC and Pocso in the case. The action came 16 days after the two had asked the girls to stay back overnight on the pretext of "practical exams". The girls spent the entire night at another school campus, located on the outskirts of a village. They shared the ordeal with their parents after reaching home a day later. The principal of the school was arrested on Monday.
Muzaffarnagar senior superintendent of police Abhishek Yadav had on Monday suspended the station house officer of Purkazi police station for negligence on duty. Police are investigating the role of cops who were allegedly trying to hush up the case.
(The victims' identity has not been revealed to protect their privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
