A teacher working at a government school in Kothapalem was on Friday (18-01-2019) sentenced to three years imprisonment and was ordered to pay a fine of Rs.25,000 for sexually assaulting a minor girl in 2015.
First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge V.V. Srinivas Murthy on Friday (18-01-2019) convicted 49-year-old K. Simhachalam, a Telugu teacher working at the government school in Kothapalem under Gopalapatnam police limits, after examining seven witnesses.
Murthy was convicted of sexually assaulting a Class V girl student of the same school in January 2015. The Airport Police here had launched the investigation after receiving a complaint from the girls parents.