60-year-old lures kid with chocolate, molests her

GHAZIABAD: A 60-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a three-year-old girl in Indirapuram on Tuesday evening. The man, Mata Pher, took the child away around 4.30pm on the pretext of buying her a chocolate while she was playing outside her house with her elder sister, said police.
“Around 5.30pm when I was returned home from work, I asked my wife about our daughter and she told me that both the sisters were playing outside the house along with other children. However, I only found my elder daughter outside,” the father of the girl said in the complaint. “She told me that one uncle from neighbourhood took her sister to a shop to buy her a chocolate. I got worried and started searching for her along with her neighbours. After searching for a lot of time, when we reached the green belt area near the elevated road in Indirapuram, I found my daughter lying there without clothes.,” he added.
“After questioning our daughters and other children, we identified the accused and went to his house around 1am which was found locked,” the complaint further read. The kid’s family members then approached Indirapuram police and filed a complaint against the accused who was then booked under IPC Section 354 (molestation) and also under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“We arrested the accused from his house on Wednesday. He will be produced in court on Thursday and sent to jail,” added the SHO.