A 16-year-old student at one of the oldest schools in Delhi has accused his teacher of sodomising him. The teacher, who had allegedly been sodomising the boy for over a year, was arrested and later sent to judicial custody on Saturday.
According to police, the accused – Mohammad Bilal (48) – is a Trained Graduate Teacher at Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School. Founded in 1696, it is now a co-education government aided school managed by the Delhi Education Society and Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung is the president of the School Managing Committee.
“Bilal, who hails from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested after a Class XII student approached Kamla Market police station on Friday complaining about him. The boy in his statement to the police said he was sodomised in the National Service Scheme (NSS) room of the school at around 12-30 p.m.,” a police officer said.
“After sexually assaulting the boy, the teacher had also threatened to fail him in his exams if he revealed the incident to anyone,” the officer added.
The boy claimed he was repeatedly sodomised for the past one year, but could not gather the courage to narrate his ordeal to his parents. He finally informed his parents on Friday. Late on Friday, the boy’s parents took him to the Kamla Market police station and lodged a complaint.
A case under Section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code was filed after his medical examination was conducted at Lok Nayak Hospital.
The boy has also told the police that Bilal had offered to teach him alone around two years ago.
