A video of students drinking alcohol in a school bus in Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu has gone viral. The clip uploaded on social media is believed to have been recorded by one of the students. In this, a group of boys and girls can be seen opening and drinking beer bottles. All the students are said to be from a government school in Chengalpattu.
Initially it was believed to be an old video, but later it was found that the incident happened on Tuesday. The students were in their school uniforms in a bus going from Thirukazhukundram to Thatchur. The District Education Officer has said that the authorities have taken cognizance of the incident and the police is probing the matter. Appropriate action will be taken after the investigation is completed.
Chengalpattu District Education Officer Rose Nirmala confirmed the incident. He said that since it happened outside the school, the police is probing it. After this, appropriate action will be taken.
Earlier in 2017, teachers of a government school in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district had allegedly given liquor to students during a school trip when they asked for water. The students allegedly belonged to classes 8, 9 and 10 and were given liquor by the school headmaster and two teachers, who were in an inebriated condition. The three accused faculty members were suspended.
Dalit Eight arrested in case of sexual harassment of woman, minor also included A 22-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly sexually assaulted and raped by eight men, including four minors and two DMK members, in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district for over a year. The police gave this information on Tuesday. He was arrested and sent to police custody on Monday night. The minors have been sent to the correction centre.
Threatened and sexually harassed woman- According to the police, the Dalit woman was caught by her lover, who runs a small dairy. Hariharan Mahendran, 27, reportedly shared private videos with seven of his friends. Two of them are DMK members. The police FIR states that Mahendran first shared the video with three people, including two minors, aged 17 and 15. After this, the woman was sexually assaulted by threatening to post the video on Facebook.