One of the teachers was also arrested a few months ago for sexually harassing another student.

Kanpur:

A minor, who went to Kanpur to prepare for the NEET medical entrance exam, was allegedly raped and blackmailed for months by two prominent teachers from a popular coaching center in the city. Police said one of the teachers was arrested a few months ago after CCTV footage of him allegedly sexually assaulting another student was widely shared, giving the victim the courage to finally lodge a complaint.

Both teachers were arrested.

The student went to Kanpur to prepare for the exam in 2022 and enrolled in a coaching center there, a police official said. In January this year, biology teacher Sahil Siddiqui, 32, invited her to a party he said was for all the students in his house. However, when the girl arrived at her apartment, she realized that she was alone. She claimed that Siddiqui got her drunk, raped her and filmed the show.

The survivor told police that Siddiqui made the video public, threatened to kill her family, and raped her on several other occasions. He held her hostage in his home for a while and then forced her to attend parties there. During one such party, she was raped by 39-year-old chemistry teacher Vikas Porwal. The survivor was a minor at the time.

The student said that he went home to meet his family around Holi and Siddiqui called him and asked him to come back, threatening to harm his family if he did not comply.

A video of Siddiqui allegedly sexually harassing another student recently went viral and Siddiqui was released on bail. This overcame the student’s fear of him and filed a police complaint on Thursday, an official said.

A first information report (FIR) was registered on Friday and both Siddiqui and Porwal were arrested on the same night.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhishek Pandey said: “The student told us that she was raped by the accused on different occasions. A case has been registered and two men have been arrested and are being questioned. The student was a minor at that time and asked us not to share too many details.”

(Contributed by Arun Agarwal)