The Kozhikode Rural police will on Tuesday submit a detailed report to the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights on the incident in which a four-and-a-half-year old kindergarten student from Nadapuram was sexually abused by two senior students.
The Superintendent of Police and the Nadapuram Circle Inspector will jointly submit the report. The commission had given the police time till November 18 to submit the report. Nazeer Chaliyam, member of the panel, said the police would be responsible for submitting a report, with details of the entire incident and the action taken by them to arrest the accused.
The commission would also examine in detail whether the school management had any involvement in hiding the issue and preventing the arrest of the real accused, he said. He said the police report on the incident was sought as per section 44 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
“In case they fail to submit the report on time, the Commission has the full privilege to summon the officers concerned or issue warrant against them to deal with the negligence,” he added.
The Kerala State Women’s Commission too had intervened in the issue.
A series of protests had erupted in Nadapuram demanding the arrest of the students accused in the incident.
Women’s Commission member Noorbina Rasheed, who visited the child last Sunday, had observed that there were serious violations on the part of the investigating officials and the school management.
It was on October 30 that the student was allegedly abused by two of her senior students.
