MUMBAI: The DB Marg police arrested a 60-year-old driver for allegedly molesting an 11-year old girl in his taxi while going to drop her home.The girl, who studies in a reputed south Mumbai school, took a taxi on Tuesday to go home from school. “She hired the cab and was about to sit in the back seat when the driver asked her to sit on the front seat, next to him, saying she might get hurt if he drives fast and took turns. The innocent girl sat on the front seat,” said a police officer.He added that the driver then began touching the girl inapropriately while driving. The girl felt uncomfortable and asked the driver to stop the taxi but he increased the speed. The brave girl opened the door and jumped out from the running taxi at around 11 am on Tuesday. “The driver fled from there,” said the officer.The girl took another cab to reach home and narrated her ordeal to parents. They approached the D B Marg station and filed a complaint. The police invoked the sections of molestation of the IPC and a section of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. “We did not have the taxi’s number. However, with the time described by the victim, we scanned the CCTV footage of the area and zeroed in on a taxi. We found its registeration number and traced the driver, Mohammad Mirzee , is a resident of JJ Marg , whom the girl identified as the accused. He was brought to the police station on Tuesday night and arrested. Mizee was produced before a court which remanded him in police custody till September 11. “The girl’s statement will soon be recorded befoe a magistrate and we will try for a speedy trial,” the officer added.ends.