A 52-year-old police constable attached to the Kurar police has been booked for the allegedly molesting a 14-year-girl on Monday evening. Police sources said the incident occurred near the Adani office bus stop on Monday afternoon as the girl was returning from the school.

She alleged that the constable called out to her and forcibly hugged her. The girl ran home and told her mother, who in turn called the police control and narrated the incident to them. She later went to the Kurar police station and registered the complaint. On the complaint of the girl's mother and the statement given by the girl, the Kurar police have booked the constable under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act.