School teacher gets 10-year RI for sexually abusing student at Surakudi

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A court here has sentenced a 44-year-old schoolteacher to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl student two years ago.

Additional District and Sessions Court Judge S Sivakadatcham handed out the sentence to Sivanesan working in a government high school at Surakudi in the district OnWednesday. He pronounced the verdict and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on Sivanesan.

Hailing from Puducherry, the teacher assaulted the Class 6 girl during the lunch break on August 4, 2016, when she had visited him in the staff room to get her notebook corrected, according to the prosecution.