With abuse instances on rise, residential ladies colleges in Jharkhand’s Dumka to solely have feminine workers

Express News Service

RANCHI: In mild of accelerating incidents of academics and male college workers sexually abusing ladies finding out in residential colleges, the Dumka district administration has taken a call to exchange all male workers within the three colleges operated by the Welfare Department in Dumka. 

As of now, male academics have already been changed with feminine academics.

Steps are being taken to exchange all different male clerical workers, cooks, and safety guards with feminine ones, District Welfare Officer in Dumka Sanjay Kacchap stated.

A criticism field can be going to be put in in every of the residential ladies’ colleges the place they will drop in their complaints with out concern. “The keys to the complaint box will be kept at the district headquarters so that it could be accessed only by officials from time to time. These boxes will be opened weekly or fortnightly so that they can act immediately if any complaint has been received from the girls,” he stated.

The officer added that the criticism field can be stored out of the vary of CCTV cameras in colleges.

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Recently, a principal and a safety guard of a authorities residential ladies’ college in Dumka had been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing college students.

The arrest was completed on Friday inside 24 hours of the FIR being lodged on the Nagar Police Station in Dumka. The Deputy Commissioner on Thursday had acquired a letter by publish which accused two male academics, the principal and the guard of touching college students inappropriately and displaying them pornographic movies. The letter additionally alleged that the boys had been ingesting alcohol inside the college. 

A workforce shaped to research the matter discovered the allegations made by the ladies to be true following which the FIR was registered.

“Two of the accused persons have been arrested and further action will be taken on the basis of the statements recorded by them under section 164 of the IPC,” stated Dumka SP Pitamnber Singh Kherwar.

The officer in control of the Nagar Police Station stated that an FIR has been registered underneath Sections 354-A (sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment), 354-B (any man who assaults or makes use of prison pressure to any girl) 354-D (punishment for stalking) of the Indian Penal Code together with Sections 8 (sexual assault) and 12 (sexual harassment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

RANCHI: In mild of accelerating incidents of academics and male college workers sexually abusing ladies finding out in residential colleges, the Dumka district administration has taken a call to exchange all male workers within the three colleges operated by the Welfare Department in Dumka. 

As of now, male academics have already been changed with feminine academics.

Steps are being taken to exchange all different male clerical workers, cooks, and safety guards with feminine ones, District Welfare Officer in Dumka Sanjay Kacchap stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

A criticism field can be going to be put in in every of the residential ladies’ colleges the place they will drop in their complaints with out concern. “The keys to the complaint box will be kept at the district headquarters so that it could be accessed only by officials from time to time. These boxes will be opened weekly or fortnightly so that they can act immediately if any complaint has been received from the girls,” he stated.

The officer added that the criticism field can be stored out of the vary of CCTV cameras in colleges.

ALSO READ | Class 1 woman raped at residential college’s hostel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma

Recently, a principal and a safety guard of a authorities residential ladies’ college in Dumka had been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing college students.

The arrest was completed on Friday inside 24 hours of the FIR being lodged on the Nagar Police Station in Dumka. The Deputy Commissioner on Thursday had acquired a letter by publish which accused two male academics, the principal and the guard of touching college students inappropriately and displaying them pornographic movies. The letter additionally alleged that the boys had been ingesting alcohol inside the college. 

A workforce shaped to research the matter discovered the allegations made by the ladies to be true following which the FIR was registered.

“Two of the accused persons have been arrested and further action will be taken on the basis of the statements recorded by them under section 164 of the IPC,” stated Dumka SP Pitamnber Singh Kherwar.

The officer in control of the Nagar Police Station stated that an FIR has been registered underneath Sections 354-A (sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment), 354-B (any man who assaults or makes use of prison pressure to any girl) 354-D (punishment for stalking) of the Indian Penal Code together with Sections 8 (sexual assault) and 12 (sexual harassment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.