SURAT: A 27-year-old youth was arrested by the city police on Friday on the charges of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in Ganpatnagar in Pandesara . According to the police, the accused identified as Sujitkumar Mistry lives in a rented house at Ganpatnagar in Pandesara. The victim girl had gone had to his house to watch television. After a couple of hours when the girl did not return home, her father went to Mistry’s house to enquire. However, he found the girl lying in the bed with the accused.

The father spotted blood oozing out from the private part of her little girl and he also saw the blood stains on the shirt of the accused. On enquiring about the issue, the accused informed that the girl complaint of itching in her private private part and that he rubbed the area, resulting in the internal wound. The victim girl later narrated the entire incident to his father and mother. The father immediately rushed to the Pandesara police station and narrated the incident. The police reached the house of the accused and arrested him for the sexual assault on the toddler.

The accused lives in Ganpatnagar from the past many years. He is originally from Vikram Gunj in Patna.

An FIR has been registered against the accused under 376, 2(I) (J) of IPC and under sections 4, 5 () (M) and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act (POSCO), 2012. “We have registered an FRI against the accused and that he has been arrested. Further investigations are going on” said a police officer at Pandesara police station.

