Minor girl sexually assaulted by canteen boy at school in Palghar

A 7yearold girl student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a teen working in the canteen at a private school in Maharashtras Palghar district the police said on Saturday reported the PTIAccording to the news agency based on a complaint the police on Friday detained the 16yearold accused who hails from Uttar Pradesh and sent him to a remand home senior inspector Ramesh Bhame of Naigaon police station saidThe alleged incident occurred at a private school in Naigaon he saidThe matter came to light when the girl a Class 2 student refused to go to the school canteen on Thursday and informed her class teacher that an uncle working there troubled her the official said as per the PTIThe school headmaster was informed and further inquiries with the girl revealed that the accused allegedly sexually assaulted her on three to four occasions over the last 15 days he saidThe headmaster intimated the Naigaon police and a case was registered under sections 74 assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty and 79 word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act the official saidThe police have seized the CCTV footage from the school and are enquiring if the accused had similarly abused any other student he saidThe accused had come to work in the canteen two months ago from Uttar Pradesh the official saidCollege student stalked harassed in Mumbra search on for culpritMeanwhile in an another incident a 22yearold woman college student was allegedly harassed by an unidentified man near Mumbra railway station in the district police said on Saturday reported the PTIWhile the incident took place on the evening of August 22 police are still trying to ascertain the culprits identity said an officialThe incident came amid widespread outrage over the sexual assault of two kindergarten girls at a school at Badlapur in the districtThe woman was walking home from college around 630 pm when a young man about 25 years old thin with long hair stalked her as per the complaintWhen the woman tried to call her brother for help he gave her a shove She raised alarm and some passersby chased the man but he succeeded in escaping the police official saidA First Information Report FIR was registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS sections 74 assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty 781 stalking and 79 word gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a womanWe are taking this case very seriously and have launched thorough investigation said an official of Mumbra police station as per the PTIwith PTI inputs