KHANEWAL: The police on Tuesday arrested a school watchman for allegedly sexually assaulting a ninth-grade student of a government school in Kabirwala, a town of Khanewal district, ARY News reported.
According to details, the student was subjected to sexual abuse by the accused guard on the school premises.
Taking swift action, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Rao Sardar Ali Khan directed DPO Khanewal to arrest the accused and also ordered him to personally monitor the investigation.
According to police, a case has been registered against the school watchman on the complaint of victim’s father while the victim will undergo a medical examination.
Detailing the incident, the father of the teenage girl said that he went to take her daughter from school and upon reaching there, the watchman told him that she had already gone home.
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He said that after not finding her daughter at home, he again went to Kabirwala school where the school watchman was sexually assaulting her daughter and managed to flee after seeing him.
In a similar type of incident that was reported in Karachi this year, a four-year-old boy had been raped in a school located in Karachi, when he went to fetch the ball.
The incident was reported in Karachi’s North Nazimabad, where a four-year-old boy was raped by a school watchman when he went to fetch the ball from the premises.
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