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A 20-year-old woman teacher of a private school in Bikaner who had run away with a 17-year-old student of the same school, was arrested and remanded in judicial custody, said officials on Thursday.
The two women, who had gone missing on June 30, were traced in Chennai on Wednesday by the police and brought back to Bikaner.
The disappearance of the two women had triggerred protests by right-wing groups and alleging ‘love jihad’ citing the fact that the minor girl was Hindu and her teacher a Muslim. The opposition BJP had supported the protests.
Later, a purported video of the two surfaced online in which the minor said that they were in love and wanted to be together.
“Based on the minor’s statement, sections of the POCSO Act were added to the FIR. The teacher has been arrested and presented before the court. She has been sent to judicial custody,” the SHO of the police station in Bikaner where the FIR has been lodged told The Indian Express on Thursday.
The police added that the minor girl has been presented before the district Child Welfare Committee (CWC).
In a video released on Monday, the two women had said that they were lesbians, loved each other and would not be able to stay without each other.
The minor girl, whose family had earlier lodged a kidnapping case against her teacher and her brothers, had clarified in the video that she left home with her teacher out of her own will and wasn’t brainwashed into doing so. Both women had acknowledged their love for each other in the video, with the minor girl saying that her family’s police case against the teacher was false.
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