GUWAHATI: The Assam Police on Saturday held a deputy director with the state government on charges of molestation of a minor here on Friday. A case has been registered against the official under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

“A complaint has been filed. We are in the process of collecting evidence. We have picked up the government official and he is being interrogated,” Hatigaon police station in charge of Loknath Deka said. The child and her parents live in a make-shift room at the basement of an apartment where the accused resides.

“On Friday around 8.30pm, when my daughter was alone, he tried to molest her. I reached home in the nick of time. I immediately went and filed a complaint,” said the mother of the minor.

