JORABAT, Oct 3 - The conductor of a school bus of Kendriya Vidyalaya, CRPF, 9th Mile has been arrested by Basistha police for allegedly sexually assaulting students inside the bus.
Acting on a complaint filed by the school management at Basistha Police Station, following complaints by guardians of several students, the police registered an FIR under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The accused has been identified as Manoj Kalita.
According to sources, the accused had been sexually harassing students for a long time. Finally he was booked and arrested from the school gate today.
�The bus, in which the alleged incidents happened, doesn�t belong to our school. It belongs to a transport contractor. The alleged perpetrator was an employee of the transport contractor,� said S Urnaw, Vice Principal of the school.
