Uma Khurana remanded to 14-day judicial custody

New Delhi, Sep 2: A city court today remanded to 14-day judicial custody Uma Khurana, who is accused in the teacher sex racket case.

The duty magistrate remanded the accused into judicial custody till September 15.

Another accused in the case, Virender Arora, arrested today, was sent into day-long police custody.

Khurana, senior mathematics teacher in Government Sarvodaya Girls Senior Secondary School at Daryaganj, was caught 'red-handed' on camera during a sting operation, broadcast on Wednesday, ''trading'' a student.

According to the TV report, the teacher would take nude photographs of girl students who visited her house for tuition after drugging them. She would then coerce them into prostitution by threatening to get their photographs published.

Khurana (41) was recruited in 1987 in an MCD school. In 1994, she was promoted as a TGT (Maths) in a Delhi government school.

Last year, she was suspended for misconduct and poor school result during her stint in the Vivek Vihar branch of Sarvodaya School.

She was reinstated and transferred to the Daryaganj branch of the Sarvodaya School about two months ago from the Vivek Vihar branch after parents in that school lodged written complaints against her.

UNI