Probe ordered as 5-yr-old raped at Delhi pvt school

The Delhi government on Sunday ordered a magisterial inquiry after a five-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a drunk peon at a private school in East Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar. The crime took place at Tagore Public School on Saturday and the accused, Vikas, was arrested later in the night.

The Sub-divisional Magistrate of Vivek Vihar area has been told to submit his report within three days. The survivor’s condition is stated to be stable, but she will take a couple of days to recover, doctors said. The girl has now refused to go to the school.

“She came home and did not say anything out of fear. Later, I saw her cleaning her wounds… she was bleeding. She said she got injured in the school. I informed my husband who came home and we rushed her to hospital,” said the mother.

“Now my daughter calls the school employee ‘gande uncle’ and doesn’t want to go to school anymore… even I don’t want to send her. Don’t know if we as parents should ensure the safety of our children by keeping them uneducated,” she said.

It was only after the doctors and the police assured her that they would beat up the accused, she described …read more