Kanpur 2 coaching teachers arrested for Raping, Blackmailing Minor NEET Aspirant

Teacher arrested for Raping, Blackmailing Minor NEET Aspirant in Kanpur FIR filed and arrested on Friday.

Kanpur: Two teachers from a popular coaching centre in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur were arrested for allegedly raping and blackmailing a minor ho had gone to the city to prepare for her NEET medical entrance exam. The teachers had allegedly been harassing her for months.

Teacher arrested for Raping, Blackmailing

    The minor finally mustered the courage to lodge a complaint against the teachers after the CCTV footage of one of the teachers, who was arrested a few months ago for allegedly sexually harassing another student, was widely shared, police told media.

    A police official stated that the victim had gone to Kanpur to prepare for the exam two years back in 2022 and enrolled in a coaching centre.

    In January this year, the student's 32-year-old biology teacher, Sahil Siddiqui, invited her to a party at his house. He had told her that the party was meant for all students of the coaching centre. However, when the girl reached his flat, she was alone.

The victim had alleged that Siddiqui got her drunk, raped her, and filmed the act. She told the police that Siddiqui had threatened to make the video public and kill her family. The girl also alleged that he had raped her multiple times on other occasions by blackmailing her, the report said.

The survivor was also held hostage at Siddiqui's flat for some time and was coerced to attend parties there. During one such party, she was allegedly raped by another teacher, 39-year-old Vikas Porwal, who taught her Chemistry. The victim was a minor at the time. 

The student told the police that Siddiqui had also called her and asked her to come back to Kanpur when she had gone home to meet her parents around Holi, threatening to harm her family if she did not obey him. 

A purported video of Siddiqui allegedly sexually harassing another student has gone viral recently. But he was released on bail. Seeing this, the victim got the courage to come forward and filed a police complaint against him on Thursday, November 7. 

Kanpur Police lodged a first information report (FIR) on Friday, following which both Siddiqui and Porwal were arrested on the same night. 

"The student told us she was raped by the accused on separate occasions. A case has been registered and the two men have been arrested and are being questioned. The student was a minor at the time and has requested us not to share too many details," Assistant Commissioner of Police Abhishek Pandey said.