A 55-year-old shopkeeper from Rakhial area in Ahmedabad was arrested and booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sections of IPC for allegedly biting the cheek of an eight-year-old girl who had gone to his shop to buy chocolate.

As per a report in Ahmedabad Mirror, the girl is the younger of two siblings. Her brother is 11 years old. The family lives in Rakhial. Her father has a business near Ajitmill crossroads while her mother is a housewife.