A 50-year-old Geography professor accused of sexually exploiting his college students was arrested late Wednesday evening in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Rajneesh Kumar had been absconding for 72 hours earlier than police apprehended him whereas he was making an attempt to safe anticipatory bail.
In accordance with PTI’s report, the police recovered his cell phone and laptop computer, that are being examined for additional proof. Kumar labored as a professor within the Geography Division of the Bagla Diploma School and rose to grow to be the Chief Proctor.
SP Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said that the investigation started after the police acquired an nameless letter detailing Kumar’s alleged misconduct. On March 13, a case was registered on the Hathras Gate police station underneath related sections of the legislation. The grievance was supported by a USB flash drive containing movies of scholars being sexually assaulted, which was handed over to authorities.
Modus Operandi And Blackmail
In accordance with the police, Kumar had put in a particular software program on his cellphone and laptop computer that stored the display screen off whereas secretly recording movies within the background.
Probe revealed that Kumar first sexually exploited a fourth-class feminine workers member in 2019. He later focused seven to eight feminine college students, blackmailing them with the secretly recorded movies.
He as soon as engaged in a bodily relationship with a lady at his house, which was inadvertently recorded on his laptop’s webcam. This incident allegedly led him to plan a scientific methodology of exploiting college students by secret recordings, Police sources informed PTI.
Kumar typically lured college students by promising them greater marks, educational promotions, and job placements. “He typically gifted them costly objects and cash to achieve their belief. As soon as he developed an in depth rapport, he sexually exploited them in his workplace chamber and secretly recorded their intimate moments. Victims remained unaware of the recordings till they have been later used for blackmail. Even after the scholars graduated, he allegedly continued to threaten and exploit them,” SP Sinha added.
Kumar joined Bagla School as a lecturer in 2001 and have become the Head of the Geography Division in 2016. He was appointed as the school’s Chief Proctor in July 2024.
As per a number of media stories his private life was troubled, with a strained marriage since 1996 and no youngsters.
