Overview

• A 53-year-old security guard in Virar faces charges after two male students, aged 15 and 17, alleged he sexually assaulted them in the school canteen in mid-June.
• Authorities at Arnala police station filed an FIR under section 75 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sections 5, 8, and 12 of the POCSO Act against Raymond Wilson Dias following the school manager’s complaint.
• In Jalna district, the manager of a government-run residential sports school was arrested July 27 after parental complaints and an education department inspection uncovered allegations from 10 to 12 girls.
• Four girls in the Jalna case have given formal statements describing molestation in non-CCTV-monitored rooms and discomfort over unsolicited chest measurements.
• Maharashtra officials have tightened campus surveillance and mandated stricter child-protection measures in the wake of these and past school abuse incidents.