An eight-year period of sexual abuse of the children, some as young as six years of age, at the hands of the warden of a state government residential primary school in Arunachal Pradesh has finally ended with the special POCSO court in the state awarding the death sentence to the warden. The chargesheet presented by the police details the horrors that unfolded at the school – from children made to watch porn to being drugged and waking up in pain.
The Special Court in Yupia on Thursday delivered a verdict against school warden Yumken Bagra (33), who served from 2014 to 2022, by which time the first complaint of sexual assault against him was filed by the father of 12-year-old twin girls.
Later on, 19 other children who were former students of the school and some still enrolled there at the time gave statements to the police about the sexual abuse they faced from him. Two other teachers from the school – Marbom Ngomdir, who teaches Hindi, and Singtung Yorpen, the headmaster – were convicted for abetting the offenses and not reporting them.
Bagra was accused of POCSO for rape and sexual assault and sections of IPC for poisoning and criminal intimidation. The other two teachers were accused of criminal intimidation and abetment to the commission of an offense under the POCSO Act.
The three minor victims, according to Oyam Binggep, an advocate for the children and their families, all were from poor families. Of statements of four parents recorded in the police’s chargesheet, two said that their children had told them about facing a sexual assault from the warden but that they had not believed them, thinking that they were “making excuses for not studying further”. The mother of a 14-year-old victim is recorded as not having believed her son because “such things do not happen in their knowledge”.
The father of twin girls had lodged a police complaint on November 1, 2022, eight years after Bagra became the hostel warden for sexually assaulting, harassing, molesting, and attempting to rape his daughters on various occasions.
As the police chargesheet filed in the court also reveals, he told police that his daughters had been informing him about the harrowing abuse to explain why they never wanted to go back to the school and added that “they will commit suicide by hanging” if they were made to go back. With this in mind, the police recorded six of the children saying they had attempted suicide owing to their experiences.
A case was transferred to an SIT on 24 November 2022. Of the 22 children who were consequently examined, 21 boys and girls narrated accounts of varying degrees of abuse, ranging from harassment to rape, given to them in the warden’s room between 2014 and 2022.
The chargesheet documents similar facts that kept cropping up in the testimonies of the children: being coerced to dance in their underwear; coercion to watch pornographic; coercion to massage Bagra; and forcible administration of medicines that rendered them drowsy and which, upon regaining consciousness, found them naked or semi-naked and in agony. Several children also claimed to have been threatened that they would be beaten and that no one should be told about his ‘deeds’, and several children have said they were beaten.
A medical examination of six female children was conducted during the inquiry. Two bottles of cough syrup and tablets were seized from the warden’s room. Pornographic photos and videos of him were recovered from his phone.
Speaking to this, then Superintendent of Police of the SIT, Rohit Rajbir Singh describes the judgment passed by the POCSO court as “a landmark one carrying the potential to profoundly influence the psyche of the entire state and its citizens. This judgment not only answers the pressing issue at hand but also is a critical turning point in the general perception society has about the protection of children, thus further strengthening collective responsibility to safeguard children’s rights and welfare.
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