School cab driver ‘ molests’ girl with special needs, arrested

PROBE ON The incident took place last week, driver arrested on Monday after child’s mother lodged a police complaint

NEW DELHI: A six-year-old girl, attending a school for children with special needs, was allegedly molested by her school cab driver in southwest Delhi.

The incident took place last week and the cab driver was arrested on Monday after the child’s mother lodged a police complaint.

According to the police, the child lives in a southwest Delhi neighbourhood and attends the school run by a group of doctors.

On Monday, the child’s mother approached the police and said her daughter told her that the cab driver had touched her inappropriately.

Deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Devender Arya said a case was registered under the Pocso Act and the driver, a 26-year-old man from Trilokpuri, was arrested.

The police are trying to establish the sequence of incidents as the driver said he had not driven the cab on August 23, the day of the crime.

A police officer, who was not authorised to speak to the media, said the school has “very few” children on rolls and only three cabs to pick and drop them every day.

“One woman attendant is always present in the cabs. It has been found that the molesta-

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we have taken action,” school authorities reportedly told investigators.

Police officials, meanwhile, said it cannot be denied that the alleged assault could have hap- pened somewhere else.

DCP Arya said no criminal record was found against the suspect. “Teachers from the school are being questioned and investigation is underway,” he said.

Two more cases of alleged sexual assault by school employees had been reported this month.

A Sanskrit teacher with a government school in north Delhi was arrested last Friday for allegedly abusing a class 10 student during summer vacations in June this year at his house.

Earlier t his month, on August 9, an electrician at a government girl’s school was arrested for allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl in the pump house of the school.

The school and its officials could not be contacted as of late Tuesday night. NEW DELHI: Three members of an online banking racket that allegedly operated from Maoist-hit regions of Jharkhand’s Jamtara and cheated hundreds of people by siphoning off money from their bank accounts have been arrested, police said on Tuesday.

Seven members of the gang were arrested last year from Punjab and Jamtara.

Police said the racketeers allegedly extracted details of bank account holders such as debit/credit card and CVV numbers by posing as bank managers or employees of nationalised banks on the pretext of renewing their cards and generated OTPS.

The arrested men are Chandan Mandal,19, from Jamtara, Manoj Hari,29, and Pappu Kumar Singh,27, both from Burdman in West Bengal. Seven mobile phones, 21 SIM cards, 11 ATM cards, six bank passbooks, and three cheque books were seized from them.

Additional commissioner of police (crime) AK Singla said the investigation was launched following a complaint filed on July 2017 by one Prabeer Kumar Basu, saying ₹50,000 was illegally withdrawn from his account after a fake bank employee tricked him into sharing the bank’s details.

Investigators identified the caller as Chandan Mandal and found that he allegedly transferred the money into multiple e-wallets. They tracked the string of the transactions and found the money trail in Punjab, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

“Mandal was arrested from Jamtara. The other two were caught from Burdwan,” said Bhisham Singh, deputy commissioner of police (crime). Police said Mandal belongs to a poor family from Jamtara.

“Due to poor financial condition, he started cheating in the year 2015 and earned a good amount of money. His lifestyle attracted many jobless people and they together formed a gang,” Singh said.

SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE GANG WERE ARRESTED LAST YEAR FROM PUNJAB AND JAMTARA