The Oshiwara police booked a 55-year-old music teacher on Thursday for allegedly molesting one of his minor students for three years. The incident took place between 2007 to 2010, when the victim was learning to play the guitar from the accused, a Mumbai Mirror report read. The victim's mother, who is the complainant in the case, said the accused assaulted her daughter by inserting a pencil, pen or a plastic bottle in her private parts. He showed the minor obscene photos, spoke to her in a lewd manner threatened her to remain silent about it, the report added.

The woman, who is 22 years old now, was nine when the molestation began. "Since the POSCO act came into force in 2012, the accused has only been charged under Section 354 (molestation), 509 (insulting modesty of a women) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code," Dayanand Bander, senior inspector, Oshiwara Police station, was quoted as saying in the report.