The incident was reported from September 2021 to 1st January 2022. A colleague teacher in the school having observed all these had reported against the physical education teacher to the Block Education Officer in Chikkamagaluru. The BEO in turn filed FIR against the accused for offenses under Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 for inappropriately touching girl students. In the meantime knowing about it, parents of girls students registered separate crimes on different dates against the petitioner which resulted in several FIRs. All these matters are pending before a special court in Chikkamagaluru.
The petitioner had challenged FIRs registered against him in the High Court. He further claimed that out of spite or ill-will by people inimical to him in the institution had instigated the parents to file complaints and requested for quashing all the FIRs. Justice M Nagaprasanna opined that the court contended that all cases were about a single incident. Further, the court observed that no parent will without any rhyme or reason register a complaint that her child has been sexually abused. Karnataka high court having considered all these in a recent order refused to quash proceedings against a physical education teacher from NR Pura in Chikkamagaluru. The Justice is also termed as preposterous the spite/ ill-will theory. He further expressed that "It is too far-fetched for this court, at this juncture, to even consider the submission of the counsel for the petitioner. Spite or ill-will against him by other teachers of the institution cannot mean that those who are inimical towards the petitioner want to shoot him from the shoulder of a child of his parents. Such arguments cannot be accepted. While declining to accept the contention, Justice Nagaprasanna pointed out that perusal of complaints revealed that incidents had not happened on a single day but for the past one to three months and hence multiple registrations of FIRs were necessitated. Therefore the petitioner has been directed to defend himself in each of these cases
While hailing the observation of the Hon. High Court, the Edunews opines that no such case should be tolerated. The colleagues should come forward to submit the complaint against the people involved in school girls` abuse cases. The Edunews also observed that if the school teachers and parents work collectively, the sexual abuse cases can be arrested on the school premises.