A 28-year-old Kandivli-based BMC school teacher has been arrested by Samta Nagar police for allegedly molesting a 10 year-old girl inside the classroom. The accused was reportedly abusing the child, a student of his, for the past three days, on the pretext of tutoring her after school hours.

According to sources from Samta Nagar police station, the accused Ankush Jadhav is a Hindi teacher at the BMC school, while the girl is a Std III student. The incident came to light on Monday evening, after the child told her mother that she was not feeling well, and her entire body was aching. Her mother took her to a neighbourhood doctor, and it was then revealed that someone had been touching the girl’s private parts.