The Bombay High Court (HC) slammed the police for their "shoddy" probe into the 2025 sexual assault of a minor girl by the headmaster and teacher of an ashram school in Kolhapur. The Kolhapur circuit bench also transferred the investigation of the case to the Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID), news agency PTI reported.

The HC bench, comprising Justices Vrushali Joshi and Sandesh Patil, stated that it was "flabbergasted" by the superintendent of police's claim that no female IPS officer was available, slamming the investigating team's "lackadaisical approach" and complete ignorance of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.