Teacher in Pocso case innocent, reiterate kin

Kottayam: The relatives and friends of Narendra Babu, the

music teacher

who committed

suicide

after being an accused in

POCSO case

, still maintain that the case was framed against him and he was innocent.

The music teacher had written a very detailed suicide note along with complaint letters to the district collector, magistrate and the SP. The relatives hope that the police will initiate a probe based on the letter’s content.

Anil, a relative of the deceased said that they will wait for a couple of days for the police to initiate action. “We will move legally if there is no action by police,” he said. Meanwhile, Vaikom CI said that they will probe the issues raised by Babu in the letter.

Babu, 51, an Arattukulangara native, was found hanging from a tree near his house in the premises of a volleyball court, on Thursday morning. He was a music teacher in an Ettumanur school. Several handwritten papers were pinned on to the net of the volleyball court in which he had explained his innocence. He had also displayed the complaint by the students.

“He was unable to face people after serving 45 days in jail. He was a popular artist,” said Anil. Three school staff, including a woman, were behind framing him as an accused, he added.

None of the complaints by 14 students and two parents had anything to do with sexual abuse, Anil said. The woman was instrumental in making the students file complaints, he added.

“The complaints were strange: the teacher calling one student ‘chetta’ (elder brother) always, catching hold by the collar of the shirt, laying his palm over that of the student while using a computer mouse, making one student sing in class always, raising one of the eyebrow, etc,” said Anil.