Vadodara: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly molested at an exhibition stall on Parsi Agiyari ground in the wee hours of Friday.
Police said that the girl, a daughter of one of the handicrafts exhibitors, was asleep in the stall in the wee hours of Friday when the accused identified as Sukhveer Yadav allegedly molested her. The girl said that since she keeps moving with her father for their handicraft sale, they do not have a house in Vadodara, so she slept in the stall.
Around 2 am, Yadav entered the stall and tried to gag her and touched her inappropriately. The girl woke up and shouted for help. Her father woke up and Yadav fled. The girl could not see Yadav’s face due to darkness, but next morning when her father checked the footage of CCTV camera installed at the exhibition ground, he identified Yadav. The accused worked at one of the stalls on the same exhibition ground.
The girl and her father, later Friday, went to Sayajigunj police station and lodged a complaint of sexual harassment and violation of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.