The Ministry of Education will not make any comments on why suspended civil servant, Kishore Kumar continued to work as a teacher after getting charged in 2018.
Kumar was charged with three counts of criminal trespassing, indecently assaulting a woman and criminal intimidation, and appeared in court in 2018.
He confirms that the case is before the courts.
Kumar was suspended on Monday.
He is a computer science teacher at Ratu Sukuna Memorial School.
We have asked Minister for Education, Rosy Akbar on what is the procedure when a teacher faces criminal charges and why did he continue to teach. Akbar says we should now respect the Police and Ministry investigations that are ongoing.
Kumar has made porn claims through his facebook video posts against NFP parliamentarian, Lenora Qereqeretabua.
Qereqeretabua says she will wait for CID, Ministry of Education and the Online Safety Commission to respond to their complaints against this alleged criminal.
Kumar was released from Police custody yesterday afternoon as he can only be held in custody without charge for 48 hours.
Police say there are other aspects of the investigation that need to be finalised before he is taken into custody again.
The National Federation Party had also released a video earlier this week on their Facebook page from September 2017, where Kumar is shown attending a NFP Rally in Valelevu. In that video, Kumar had claimed that he was the leader of the investigative research intelligence network on social media and he had also claimed that he was the head admin of the FijiFirst Party on social media.
Speaking outside the CID Headquarters, Kumar said that he is the head of admin for the FijiFirst Party which is not related to the ruling FijiFirst.
