FIR registered against Indore school teacher for strip-searching students to find mobile phones

FIR registered against Indore school teacher for strip-searching students to find mobile phones

FIR registered against Indore school teacher for strip-searching students to find mobile phones

INDORE: A first information report (FIR) has been registered against a teacher of a government school who allegedly strip-searched girl students to look for a mobile phone that rang during class in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, police said on Friday.

As per a complaint lodged by parents, the teacher allegedly took five girl students to the washroom and strip-searched them after a mobile phone rang during class at a government girls higher secondary school on August 2, an official said.

Malharganj police station in-charge Shiv Kumar Raghuvanshi said initial investigations have revealed that the teacher had "mentally tortured" minor girls by allegedly making them remove their clothes to find their mobile phones.