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PROBE INTO BALASORE SEX RACKET 

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FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Published 28.07.99, 12:00 AM
Bhubaneswar, July 28 :     The Orissa government has ordered a crime branch inquiry into the alleged sex racket in a Balasore girls? college. Announcing this in the Assembly last night, chief minister Giridhar Gamang said the government had also directed the Balasore district administration to provide security to the student who blew the lid off the alleged racket. The government?s decision to institute a crime branch probe followed an inquiry by the state women?s commission into a complaint by the student against one of her teachers. She accused the teacher, a woman, of trying to lure her into the flesh trade by promising to find her a job. A similar racket was unearthed in Kendrapara last year. According to the women?s commission, the physical education teacher took the student, an athlete, to Bhubaneswar on July 9, promising to find her a job. After getting off a bus, the student was taken to an apartment on the national highway, where the teacher allegedly tried to force her to have sex with an unidentified man. The girl, however, freed herself from the man?s clutches and locked herself in a bathroom. The commission said the girl threatened to commit suicide when the man and her teacher tried to break in. After spending the night in the bathroom, the student fled the next morning while the teacher and the man were asleep. The girl subsequently informed the principal about the incident, but the college authorities failed to take action against the teacher without a written complaint. The Balasore police, too, allegedly washed their hands off the incident saying the incident had taken place in Bhubaneswar. The chief minister told the Assembly that he had asked the police to treat the women?s commission?s report as an FIR and register a criminal case immediately. He said the Khurda district police had also been directed to investigate the incident as it took place in the capital city.    
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