Lucknow: A female warden of the government-run girls hostel, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in Aligarh’s Iglas area, has been sacked for allegedly making “objectionable” videos of girl students of Classes 6 to 8 and between 14 and 15 years.
Sub-divisional magistrate Mahima Singh said, “The incident happened five months ago. After receiving complaints from parents of the affected students, district magistrate Aligarh, Indra Vikram Singh, instructed chief development officer, Akanksha Rana, to probe the matter. The allegations against the warden were found to be true. A report regarding the warden’s termination of services has been sent to the DM.”
According to sources, “The accused warden had placed her mobile phone in the hostel bathrooms and recorded videos of the girls several times”.
When asked about it, deputy basic shiksha adhikari Dipti said, “100 girls stayed in the hostel at the time of the incident. The two-storey school building has a residential facility with a kitchen and bathrooms on the first floor.” The official refused to disclose the name of the accused “due to privacy concerns and fear of backlash from neighbouring villages to which most girls belong”.
