In another case, the police filed an FIR against a school teacher Sodhi Kista, for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl student of a residential school at Dugaiguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.

The police said that Kista allegedly induced the girl to have a relationship with him, by promising to "marry" her.

After she got pregnant, he allegedly warned her not to disclose anything to anybody, the police said.

Meanwhile, the main opposition Congress has announced that it would appoint committees to examine both these cases.