Shimla, Feb. 1 -- The Himachal Pradesh Directorate of School Education has dismissed a government school lecturer from service after a departmental inquiry found charges of sexual harassment of a minor student to be proved.

According to official orders issued in January 2026, Rupinder Kumar Chaudhary, then PGT (IP) posted at Government Senior Secondary School Kalruhi in Una district, has been dismissed under Rule 11(ix) of the CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965. With the issuance of the order, he has ceased to be in government service with immediate effect.

The disciplinary action follows a long legal and departmental process that began in June 2019, when an FIR was registered against Chaudhary at the Women Police Station, Una, under Section 376 of ...