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