A tuition teacher who ran away with his minor student in Gujarat's Surat on Friday claimed that she's pregnant with his child. Police arrested a 23-year-old woman after a complaint was filed under BNS 137 (2) by a 13-year-old boy's father at Puna police station. The accused woman teaches in the same school where a minor studied in class 5 in the Parvat Patiya area, as per The Times of India. The twist was revealed after a woman was arrested 4 days after the incident, saying, "I am 5 months pregnant," she said during the interrogation by the police, asking why she eloped with the boy. She also revealed that the child she carrying is of her minor student's.
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After the woman claimed, police also asked the 13-year-old student. He confessed that they both had physical relations multiple times. The boy lives with his parents and a sibling, age 7, in a building on the second floor of the Magob area. The family is from Rajasthan, while the teacher lives in the same society on the third floor; she's from Mehsana. The teacher has been giving tuition to the boy for the last three years.
According to the police, tuition teacher Mansi left Surat with her minor student and reached Ahmedabad and then Delhi via Vadodara by bus. From there, both of them went to Jaipur and stayed in a hotel for two nights. Based on the complaint, the police booked her under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. She was produced before a court on Thursday, which granted one-day police custody.