Guard arrested for sexually abusing 6-year-old girl in South Mumbai | Mumbai News

An official said: “While she was playing, the security guard kept calling out to her, which caught the attention of a 45-year-old resident of another building. Sensing that something was wrong, he started recording a video. When he saw the security guard touching her inappropriately, the resident raised the alarm, after which the security guard fled.”

Police said the security guard threatened her not to tell anyone about the incident. “The resident was looking for the girl’s parents and when he got her father’s number, he called him on June 10 and showed him the video,” an official said.

The father looked for the security guard but could not find him. He then showed the video to other residents of the building and thus learned his name, an investigator added.

The mother later confided in the six-year-old and told her that “an uncle had touched her inappropriately,” according to an investigator.

The girl’s father then approached the police and a case was registered under Section 354 (A) (sexual harassment) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, following which the security guard was arrested on Friday.