India, July 31 -- The woman who had allegedly helped a female teacher at a well-known city school convince her minor male student to have an affair with her has been arrested by the Dadar police. A resident of West Bengal, she had recommended the depression tablets that the teacher had given the 17-year-old boy, said police.

The teacher, accused of sexually assaulting the student, was arrested after the case was registered in the last week of June under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, and granted bail on July 22.

"Initially, we had thought that the woman who had helped the teacher had shifted to a foreign country. But later, we traced her to West Bengal," an officer from Dadar police station told HT. ...