COOCHBEHAR NEWS

Teacher held for molestation of minor girl

 

COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 11: Police arrested a teacher of Jenkins School on yesterday night for his alleged attempt to rape to a girl child. The accused teacher, Ranjan Talukdar, was produced to the court today and he was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. He will be produced again in the court on 25 November.

 

Cooch Behar SP Mr DP Singh said a teacher of Jenkins School, Mr Supriyo Barua had lodged a complaint to the police that his four-and-half-year old minor girl was sexually abused by Talukdar who is a colleague of him in the same school. An attempt-to-rape case under 376 (F)/511 IPC was initiated against the accused and he was arrested last night.

 

It was learnt that the two teachers from outside of Cooch Behar district used to live in a rented house at Chitrakar Para in Cooch Behar town. Talukdar allegedly tried to rape the child on 8 November. On the next day her father lodged a complaint. Yesterday the accused was arrested.

 

Activists of Chhatra Parishad organised a demonstration in front of the district court building this noon in protest against the incident. They demanded exemplary punishment to the accused teacher. []

 

Football tournament to better police-public relation

 

COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 11: In a bid to improve the bitter relation of police with general public football tournaments will be organised in Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts. Announcing the plan the DIG of Jalpaiguri Range Mr Z Hasan said today in Cooch Behar that the matches would be held from police station level to district level. The final match will be played between the teams from Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri.

 

Mr Hasan expected that the tournament may begin from 22 November and it will continue for three weeks. Already 300 teams registered their names for the tournaments and this number may rise. The tournament will be organised at all the 13 police stations in Cooch Behar district and 17 police stations in Jalpaiguri district.

 

Explaining the aim of the friendship football tournament the DIG said, as there were misconceptions and fear in general people against the police the proposed tournament may better the relation. Taking advantage of the friendship football an effort will be taken to rub off the wrong conception. During the matches the players and others may learn the procedure of recruitment in police force. This may help them to stay away from dishonest middlemen and corrupt personnel for being recruited to the police force, the DIG believes. []