On Sunday, Madhya Pradesh police nabbed a teenage guy for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old kindergarten girl student at a school in Ratlam.
The girl notified her mother about the teenager’s “bad touch,” which exposed the behavior.
The victim is an upper kindergarten (UKG) kid, and the accused adolescent is the son of a private school watchman.
On September 27, the incident occurred, apparently, in the watchman’s room on the third level of the school. The school has CCTV cameras for security, although they only cover the ground floor of the building.
“The accused is a student in class 10 at another branch of the same institution. An investigation was launched when the girl’s mother filed a complaint that her daughter had been sexually assaulted at the school where she is a UKG student. Rakesh Khakha, Additional Superintendent of Police, stated that the accused boy has been taken into jail.
The teenager has been charged under Sections 65-II (committing rape on a woman under the age of twelve) and 75 (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Jitu Patwari, the state Congress chairman, reacted to the incident by criticizing the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly failing to protect the state’s daughters.
“The news of a tragic occurrence involving a five-year-old girl in Ratlam has severely disturbed me. Such occurrences with our girls occur every day in MP. I am very hurt. Daughters will not receive justice by just requesting assistance from the government via social media. “Now the Congress party will fight this battle on the streets,” he wrote in a post on social media platform X.
