Bombay HC acquits teacher for rape of Class 3 student after 11 years

The Bombay High Court has acquitted a teacher who was accused of raping a minor in a 2010 case.

After 11 years, the Bombay High Court has acquitted a teacher who was accused of raping a minor in a 2010 case.The high court set aside a 2013 conviction of a trial court while saying that conviction cannot be based on “probabilities" but needs to be based on cogent evidence which it found lacking in this case. The prosecution said the biology teacher had joined a high school and used to teach students of classes 11 and 12. The victim was studying in class 3 of the same school, along with her siblings.On June 22, 2010, the children did not return home till 6.15 pm. The worried parents went to school and were told by the auto-rickshaw driver that the girl could not be traced. After some time, one teacher had dropped the girl near the rickshaw. Seeing her disheveled look, the mother asked the girl about what had happened. The girl told her that when she had gone to the washroom with one of her friends, the drawing teacher had done 'bad things' to her.