Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) A Jharkhand school principal and four teachers have been booked for allegedly asking 13 girl students to strip to look for missing money, police said Monday. An FIR was lodged Sunday against the principal, Mohammad Sharfuddin, his deputy Rajiv Kumar Singh and three women teachers of Balika Middle School of Moddidih colliery in Dhanbad district, around 290 km from Ranchi, police said.


The report was filed after the parents complained that the school staff had forced their kids to remove their clothes to frisk them for lost money of one of their classmates.


On Saturday, Nazia Parveen of Class VIII claimed to have lost Rs.55. When the money was not found, the girls of the class were first asked to remove their shoes and then their skirts and shirts.


"When I refused to remove my skirt and shirt, the lady teachers threatened to strip me before the principal. I had no option but to remove my clothes," the police quoted one of the students as saying.


The money was not found. And the teachers reportedly threatened the girls not to tell their parents about the incident.


The principal has denied the allegation saying: "The girls were asked to remove only shoes and socks. No girl was asked to remove her skirt and shirt."


The parents, after learning about the incident, gathered in the school premises and allegedly thrashed the principal and his staff before complaining to the police.


The principal has lodged a counter-FIR against 10 people for the alleged assault.






Dhanbad, 28 Apr 2008,TNN: Police have registered FIRs against the headmaster and four other teachers, including two women teachers, of Modidih Girls High School near here on the charge of outraging the modesty of 13 schoolgirls in the school building. In protest, the girls of the school have decided not to attend school from Monday.


According to sources at the Jogta police station located about 20 kms from here, FIRs have been registered against secretary of the school management committee Surendra Singh, headmaster Mohd Sharfuddin, assistant headmaster Rajiv Kumar Singh, besides Sushma Kumari and Priti Kumar (both women teachers) on a complaint filed by a student of Class VIII.


The principal, too, has filed complaints against guardians of ten students, who had allegedly misbehaved with him and other teachers and reportedly assaulted them. The students had complained to their parents about their stripping by the school headmaster and some teachers on the school premises on Saturday. Enraged over the incident, the guardians went to the school the same day and reportedly assaulted the headmaster and others. They were demanding arrest of the headmaster and other teachers.


Dhanbad district education officer Rajkumar Prasad Singh told TOI here on Sunday that the school, run and managed by the public sector Bharat Coking Coal Company(BCCL),was neither registered nor recognized. It was run on the land and building given by the BCCL.


Singh said, "It is a serious incident and I have written to the BCCL management to take strong action against the erring teachers. The incident is highly condemnable, but since the state government has no control over the school, it cannot directly take any action. However,the police have registered FIRs against the headmaster and the teachers involved in the case."


Singh said the incident occurred following a complaint lodged by a student that her purse was missing. The 13 girls were later taken at a room and their clothes removed by the headmaster and teachers. However, neither the money nor the purse was found on them." The agitated girls later complained to their parents who stormed into the school premises demanding arrest of the headmaster and other teachers.


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