Bengaluru POCSO Case: Teacher Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Children Dies After Jumping From 3rd Floor Of SP Office Complex

Bengaluru: A physical education teacher in a private school in Bengaluru South District, who was accused of suxually abusing students jumped to death from the third floor of Superintendent of Police office at Ramnagar in Bengaluru South District.

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The deceased teacher has been identified as S Shashidhar (49), a native of Vijayanagara district.

Shashidhar has been working as a physical education teacher in a private school falling under Akkur police station limits in Channapattana taluk. When several girl students complained of sexual assault by Shashidhar, the school authorities filed a complaint with the police. The case was transferred to Ramanagar Women's police station, who arrested him on Friday and interrogated him for three days in the police  custody. 

Since Sunday was the last day of the police custody and he was to be handed over to the judicial custody on Monday morning, the police took him for a medical examination on Sunday morning. Later, he was taken to the Superintendent of Police  office in Ramanagar and recorded his fingerprints and took his photographs on the third floor of the building.

After the procedures were completed, he was being taken to the police vehicle to be sent to the prison. 

Shashidhar pushed the police constable escorting him and jumped from the third floor of the office complex. He was seriously injured and the police rushed him to the district hospital, where he died later.