{"id":247805,"date":"2024-09-04T01:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247805"},"modified":"2024-09-04T01:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:13:51","slug":"sexual-assault-case-court-extends-bagras-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/sexual-assault-case-court-extends-bagras-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual assault case: Court extends Bagra&#8217;s hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YUPIA, 3 Sep:<\/strong> The district &amp; sessions court here has extended the court hearing of Yumken Bagra, prime accused in the sexual assault on children case at the government residential school in Karo village in Shi-Yomi district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hearing date of Bagra has been extended to 11 September as the defence counsel of the case was absent on Tuesday on account of health issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hearing of Marbom Ngomdir, a lady teacher in the school, along with two others, will take place on 9 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hearing of the co-accused and the then headmaster of the school, Tajum Yorpen, took place on 28 August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-one children &#8211; 15 girls and six boys, aged 6 to 12 years (Class 1-5) &#8211; were sexually assaulted and molested by Bagra, who was the hostel warden during that time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on an FIR lodged in November 2022 by a father of two girl children, stating that his daughters were sexually assaulted by the warden, the Monigong police had registered the case, and transferred it to a special investigation team (SIT) of the vigilance department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SIT investigation found that there were six cases of rape, nine cases of molestation, and six cases of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused has been chargesheeted for aggravated penetrated assault\/molestation, and booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and under Sections 6, 8, 10, 12, and 376 A, B and C of the Indian Penal Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter YUPIA, 3 Sep: The district &amp; sessions court here has extended the court hearing of Yumken Bagra, prime accused in the sexual assault on children case at the government residential school in Karo village in Shi-Yomi district. The hearing date of Bagra has been extended to 11 September as the defence counsel of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}