A special court here today extended by one day the police remand of a hostel director accused of raping and molesting four deaf and mute women inmates, a senior official said.

Ashwini Sharma, director of a hostel for deaf and mute women in Awadhpuri in Bhopal, has been accused by four women of rape and molestation and police have invoked sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against him. Sharma was presented today before special judge Pankaj Gaud of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act court which extended his police custody by one day, Superintendent of Police (SP) South Rahul Kumar Lodha told PTI.