Teacher acquitted of rape charge

SHIMLA, Aug 20: The HP High Court today acquitted a school teacher who had been convicted and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment on the charge of rape.

Justice R.L.Khurana accepted the appeal filed by Bimlesh Kumar, centre head teacher in the government primary school Huran in Kullu district. He was sentenced by the additional sessions judge Kullu in May 1995.

He was accused of raping a minor Class V student in the school. The alleged incident occurred on December 7, 1992. The high court concluded that the medical evidence did not support the charge of rape as there were no signs of violence on the person of prosecutors.