The wife of Ramesh Rajput, the man accused of sexually assaulting and molesting a three-year-old girl inside the school bus, has claimed that her husband “would never molest a girl, as he has two children of his own.” Speaking to SMD minutes after a red-faced Mumbai police dropped the charge of rape against the 35-year-old cleaner to the lesser charge of molestation, following the findings of a medical report, which ruled our rape, Rajput’s wife Chhaya, said he was framed.u00a0

Chhaya said that her husband, who was identified as a cleaner by police, is in fact the driver and wanted to know, who the actual cleaner of the bus is. His family says he has been working as a school bus driver for 15 years and has a clean track record.