India, June 20 -- As proceedings before the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) continue, the complainant in a Pocso case has challenged the findings of a departmental inquiry that exonerated a lab assistant at a Chembur school accused of sexually assaulting her during a school picnic in November 2022. She has alleged that despite the pendency of criminal proceedings, the employee has once again been allowed to resume duty.

An FIR was registered at Neral police station in September 2024 under provisions of the Pocso Act and the then Indian Penal Code. The accused subsequently secured anticipatory bail from a Sessions Court in Panvel.

The school had initially suspended the lab assistant after the FIR was ...