2023-05-22
Police arrested Sailendra Kumar Sah a principal of a school located at Bhanu municipality-13 on May 22 on the charge of sexually, physically, and mentally assaulting 20 female students of grades 8-12. One of the victims alleged that the accused used to give difficult homework to female students and when they were unable to do the homework, the accused used to mentally assault them additionally sexually assault them. Kalpana Thapa Khadka, a former teacher of the school, said that she had also seen Principal Sah misbehaving before. She claimed that even though she had repeatedly raised this matter in the school management committee and staff meetings, no one cared. Inspector Narhari Adhikari of the case branch of District Police Office Tanahun said that the accused Sah was arrested and an investigation started.
Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
Onesided / Twosided | Onesided |
Collective / Interpersonal | Interpersonal |
Primary Form | Sexual Assault |
Secondary Form | Harassment |
Weapons | None |
Primary Cause | Violence in school/university (violence by teachers, hazing, etc.) |
Actor 1 - Number of people | 1 |
Actor 1 - Affiliations | Education sector/teachers (private and public) |
Actor 1 - Youth | na |
Actor 2 - Number of people | 20 |
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) | Students |
Actor 2 - Youth | na |
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