Bail for Arunachal school sexual abuse case accused cancelled
The Hindu
Gauhati HC orders cancellation of bail granted to 33-yr-old accused of raping & sexually abusing 21 schoolchildren in Arunachal Pradesh. HC observes special court granted bail in casual manner & assigns flimsy reasons. Directs judicial academy to sensitise POCSO court judges.
GUWAHATI
The Gauhati High Court on July 21 ordered the authorities concerned to process the cancellation of bail granted to a 33-year-old man accused of raping and sexually abusing 21 schoolchildren, including six boys, of a government-run residential school in Arunachal Pradesh.
The High Court had on Thursday taken up the case suo-motu.
Yumken Bagra, the accused, who was the hostel warden of the school in the Shi-Yomi district, had allegedly preyed on 21 children, aged 6-14 years, between 2014 and 2022. He was arrested in the State’s capital Itanagar in November 2022, but a special court granted him bail.
The Special Investigating Team of the Arunachal Pradesh police filed a chargesheet against the accused a few days ago and said it would appeal to the judiciary for the initiation of a trial against him.
Hearing the case, Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta, a perusal of the chargesheet containing brief references to the statements of the victims, reflected that the accused forced the children staying as boarders in the hostel to watch pornographic movies and repeatedly subjected them to sexual assault.
“The medical reports of most of the victims corroborate the fact that they were sexually assaulted as marks of violence were noticed on their private parts,” the court observed.
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