A taxi driver and his friend were arrested for molesting a 17-year-old girl from Bengaluru in a moving car while on her way to Pune. The two men have been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

According to the Indian Express, the girl had been in the city since November 2019 and was working in a hotel in Kurla. She met an 18-year-old boy while working in the hotel with whom she moved in. On June 26, the boy committed suicide by jumping from an overbridge in Dharavi and his family blamed the girl for his suicide. The police did not book her but sent her to a children’s home as she is a minor. Later, she was produced in front of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) which directed the police to send the girl to her home in Bengaluru. However, the police could not comply with the order due to the lockdown.