A teacher arrested for raping a 10-year-old student in Dadeldhura

Dhangadhi: A teacher has been arrested for raping a 10-year-old girl in a school in Dadeldhura.

Teacher Devilal Bhatt has been arrested for raping a 10-year-old girl studying in class 2 at Bhubaneswari Secondary School in Ganyapadhura Rural Municipality Ward No. 4 of the district, police said.

Chief of the District Police Office, Dadeldhura, Deputy Superintendent of Police Mahendra Nepal told Dinesh Khabar that Bhatta was arrested on Sunday and is being investigated.

A teacher had also been arrested for raping a girl in a school in Kanchanpur recently. Madhuvilas Dhungana, 53, a teacher of Mahakali Secondary School in Vidyanagar of Belauri Municipality-6 was arrested for sexually abusing a girl, police said.

He is in court trial after extending his term.