Overview

• Education Minister V Sivankutty ordered that no individual facing POCSO charges be invited to any event at state-run schools
• On June 2 a vlogger accused under the POCSO Act served as a guest at a state school’s reopening ceremony
• The Kerala General Education Department launched a formal investigation into how the invitation was extended on June 3
• The school headmistress said a voluntary organisation supplying study materials admitted it mistakenly invited the accused
• Sivankutty called the incident an institutional failure and promised that those responsible would face appropriate action