A special POCSO Court acquitted a 37-year-old man accused of flashing his minor niece in  2016 as the complainant and his mother turned hostile. In a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother to Dongri Police station, she alleged that the man flashed after her while she was on her way home, The Times of India reported.

The police complaint stated that the man was the girl’s maternal uncle and he touched her shoulder and flashed at her. She then fled the scene but did not tell her mother until two weeks after the incident. Her mother then approached the police with the complaint.