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FRESH TWIST TO SEX SCANDAL 

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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT Published 09.07.01, 12:00 AM
Agartala, July 9 :    Agartala, July 9:  South Tripura district and sessions judge Manik Chandra Roy, who is presiding over the trial of the headmaster of the Kakrabon Nabodaya School in Tripura, yesterday directed the prosecution to include the allegations levelled by two women teachers in the chargesheet against the accused. Headmaster Harishankar Tiwari has been charged with raping Purnima Deb, a student. The court ordered the inclusion of fresh allegations in the chargesheet against Tiwari despite opposition from defence counsel Kajal Das. After hearing the parties, Justice Roy ordered the inclusion of allegations levelled by Debasree Deb and Sima Mookherjee, both teachers. The Kakrabon Nabodaya School sex scandal came to light on February 5, 1999, three days after Purnima Deb, a student of class VII, gave birth to a baby girl in the school hostel. The victim was supported by the State Women's Commission, whose intervention ensured that an FIR was filed. Purnima Deb said she was raped on four occasions by Harishankar Tiwari, headmaster of the school. Tiwari later tried to manipulate the reports of DNA tests conducted in Hyderabad and Calcutta. In their statement in the district and session court of Udaipur yesterday, the two teachers accused Harishankar Tiwari of sexual harassment. Debasree Deb said Tiwari had made advances after calling her to his official chamber in the school. 'I rushed out of his chamber and tendered my resignation the next day,' Deb said. Sima Mookherjee said Tiwari had tried to molest her in his car while they were travelling to Udaipur town together. 'I was forced to order the driver to stop the vehicle and got down midway,' she said. The case will come up for hearing again on August 11. A source in Kakrabon Nabodaya School said the headmaster rejoined duty after being briefly under suspension. He allegedly even extorted money from a section of students and teachers of the school to fight the case.    
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