POCSO case registered against school owner, wife in Karnataka

Shocking case has emerged from a residential educational institution in Karnataka’s Devanahalli, where the school’s owner and his wife have been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The allegations involve the repeated sexual harassment of minor students and a subsequent cover-up involving illegal confinement. 

According to police, the primary accused, identified as Dhananjay, is the owner of the residential school and notably had served as the Taluq President of the Federation of Private Unaided Schools.

Dhananjay is accused



of entering the girls’ dormitory rooms late at night in an intoxicated state and harassing them. 

The school currently houses over 700 students. The complaint states that when the traumatised girls approached the owner’s wife, Shailaja, to report the abuse, she did not offer protection.

Instead, she reportedly supported her husband’s “vile acts” and strictly warned the children not to disclose the incidents to anyone, police said.

The victims alleged that the couple subjected them to extreme pressure for eight consecutive days to ensure the news did not leak.