Rajgarh: A first information report has been registered against the principal of a higher secondary school in Machalpur town on the charge of misbehaving with female students who were wearing casual garments instead of uniforms, police said on Thursday.
The police action followed a complaint lodged by more than a dozen pupils who alleged that Radheshyam Malviya used foul language and levelled baseless accusations against them on Saturday.
As per the complaint, the girls alleged that the 50-year-old principal Radheshyam Malviya on seeing them in normal clothes and not in school uniform, asked them to come in school uniform next time.
But when the girls replied to Malviya that they had not got their school uniforms stitched as school had just started. They assured him they would do the needful soon. However, Malviya still got angry and told them to take off what they were wearing currently.
In a video that went viral on social media, the complainants can be heard saying that the principal told them such dresses were "spoiling" the boys of the class.
Students later sloganeered against the accused against whom the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act has also been invoked. (Inputs from UNI)