Overview
- Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Himanshu Chaudhary delivered the January 30 judgment and ordered Rs 50,000 to be paid to the student as compensation.
- The assault occurred on January 1, 2020 at a private school in Gandhinagar’s Sector 28, after which the girl’s father filed an FIR at Sector 21 police station.
- Medical evidence from two doctors confirmed a ruptured left eardrum with permanent hearing impairment, and the student remains under treatment.
- The teacher was convicted under IPC Section 325 and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act after the court examined 10 witnesses, including the student and her parents.
- Judicial remarks stressed the seriousness of the offense against a minor, and the court rejected defenses such as FIR delay, lack of independent witnesses, and an unsubstantiated cancer claim.