Itanagar, Sept 27: A POSCO court in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday awarded death sentence to a hostel warden for sexually assaulting 21 minor students at a state-run residential school in Shi-Yomi district.

The warden has been identified as Yumken Bagra.

According to reports, prime accused Bagra, 33, sexually assaulted 21 children, including 15 girls and six boys, aged between 6 and 15 years, between 2019 and 2022.

The court has also sentenced 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to two others – former headmaster Singtung Yorpen, and Hindi teacher Marbom Ngomdir for their involvement in the case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC).

A police official said sexual abuse at the government-run residential school came to light after two students, both sisters, informed their parents about the crime in November 2022. On November 4, 2022, an FIR was lodged at Monigong police station in the Shi-Yomi district.

Then hostel warden Bagra, a native of Tadin village near Aalo in West Siang district, was on the run and police arrested him on December 13, 2022, in Itanagar.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed and after investigation they found that Bagra sexually assaulted 21 children during his tenure as hostel warden.

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