School principal held for raping minor

Update: 2010-09-15 00:00 GMT

AGARTALA, June 13 - Police today arrested the principal of a primary school in North Tripura district on the charge of raping a minor student of the school.

The 36-year-old principal of the private residential school in Kanchanpur allegedly raped the nine-year-old student several times at his official residence in the school complex since October last year, SP (Police Control), Uttam Kumar Bhowmik said.

The girl, after returning home for summer vacation, told her mother about what had happened to her and was not willing to rejoin the school. � PTI

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