NE NEWS SERVICE
BHUBANESHWAR, DEC 18
Stating that a fugitive Gujarat-based teacher might be working in an educational institute in Odisha, State School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash on Tuesday said all District Education Officers have been asked to be on the lookout for him.
The State Government recently received a letter from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which informed that Dhavalkumar Hareshchandra Trivedi, 49, a Gujarat-based teacher, who is allegedly involved in series of abduction and rape of girls, might be hiding somewhere in Odisha.
The investigating agency suspects that Trivedi might be working in any coaching centre or educational institution in remote parts.
“We have received the letter from the CBI regarding the fugitive teacher who has been involved in a number of heinous crimes like rape. The Government has already alerted all the DEOs and Block Education Officers (BEOs) to trace the fugitive teacher if working in their areas,” Dash said.
The Minister said the department has also attached the identification of the accused teacher in the letter. All the educational institutions, both Government and private ones, have also been informed about Trivedi, the Minister said.
The CBI which is probing the case of kidnapping of a girl by Trivedi from Gujarat on August 11, 2018, informed the Odisha Government that the accused teacher was earlier convicted with life imprisonment for his involvement in abduction of minor girls and women.
CBI stated in the letter that Trivedi preferred small towns in remote corners of different States where he imparted tuitions in English subject or get employed in school, and subsequently eloped with women and minor girls.
