Army jawan arrested for allegedly molesting minor on Train
Army jawan arrested for allegedly molesting minor on Train
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The Agra Police on Saturday arrested an Army jawan for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old girl on board the Navyug Express, The Indian Express reported. The accused was booked under POCSO Act and produced in court which sent him to jail. The man serving as a Naik in the Army allegedly molested the 11-year-old girl returning with her family to Bhopal after visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine. 

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The accused has been identified as 30-year-old M Gangaiya. The incident took place at New Delhi railway station and the family informed the police on Twitter. "We got the information on Twitter and attended the train at Faridabad from where we informed the Military Police. The accused was de-boarded at Agra and was booked under POCSO Act. He was produced in court yesterday and has been sent to jail," said the official.

The girl’s father in his police complaint said that the incident occurred when the train made a 45-minute halt in Delhi on Friday, The Times of India reported. The father said he had gotten off the train to buy food and his wife had taken their younger daughter to the toilet. “When my wife returned our daughter narrated the entire incident and with the help of the ticket examiner we confronted the jawan,” the complainant was quoted as saying.

Gangaiah is attached to the Madras regiment and is posted in Coimbatore. An unidentified Army official told The Times of India that an internal report will be sent to the jawan’s superiors. The jawan said that he had apologised for the unintentional act. “I was sleeping on my berth when the woman asked me to exchange berths with her daughter, which I agreed to do,” he told The Times of India. “While shifting my bed to the berth I accidentally brushed passed the girl.”

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