New Delhi, September 20, 2023 (PPI-OT): A minor school-going girl was raped and sexually abused multiple times for two years by the son of a school director in Bihar’s Saharsa District.

The matter came to light when the girl experienced a panic attack in the hostel, and she was found pleading for help in her sleep. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with long-term depression.

The 16-year-old has said that the school director’s son Samrat Vishwas aka Sumeet Vishwas was supported and guarded by the school Principal Anita Mishra while he used to assault her in one of the school’s classrooms.

Mishra would bring the girl into the classroom or library, turn off the lights, and lock the door from the outside. Meanwhile, Vishwas, who was already inside the room, would sexually assault the girl, with Mishra standing guard outside, according to the survivor and her kin.

The minor girl, currently grappling with severe anxiety and depression, was at Shanti Niketan Shikshan Sansthan. These distressing events began in 2017 when she was in the 6th grade, persisting until she transferred to different schools in 2019.

The survivor explaining the entire ordeal to the media said: “It happened for the first time when I was in 6th class in 2017. Anita Madam called me in the empty classroom, went outside and locked the room from outside while Samrat Vishwas was already in the room and started touching me inappropriately. At first, I didn’t understand what he was doing with me but later he undressed me and raped me.”

“He was making the video and as I resisted, he threatened me to make my video viral and tell everyone that he raped me. This continued for two years”, she said.

She said that Vishwas used to tell her that nobody would believe her and that her parents would not let her continue her studies if she told them about the sexual assault.

“Anita Madam was supportive and complicit in the heinous crime and she used to do this with other girls too but nobody ever spoke about it, as she and Vishwas used to threaten all of us. I was also scared to discontinue my studies, so I never shared this anything”, the survivor said.

“I used to have abdomen pain and dizziness and other health issues but due to fear, I endured everything on my own”, she said.

As a last resort in 2019, she asked her family members to change her school. They got her enrolled in Eklavya Centre. Currently, she is getting coached for further studies in a private institution and doing her intermediate from a distance learning mode while living in a girls’ hostel in Patna.

On 23 August, she endured a panic attack and was immediately taken to the Nobel Emergency Hospital by the hostel warden where she was admitted. On 24 August, after the diagnosis, she was referred to psychiatry where the psychiatrist found that she was dealing with severe depression and trauma.

The doctor also informed the family that during the examination, the girl mentioned her sexual exploitation and said that she was raped multiple times during her school days from the year 2017 to 2019.

Munawwar, the girl’s brother said, “She kept all of this to herself all these years, we can’t imagine what she went through. But now that she spoke about it, she keeps saying it, sometimes consciously, sometimes in sleep.”

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