Two women arrested for molesting six-year-old

Two women employees of a private school here were arrested for sexually molesting a six-year-old Class 3 student for the last few months, police said Tuesday.

The women - Daana, 37, and Sajida, 28 - were arrested for playing with private parts of the girl in the washroom.

"The girl told her mother about the latest instance. We have arrested the duo on the complaint of victim's father," said Sector 55-56 station house officer Pradeep Singh.

"They had been doing this for the last six months. They used to take the girl in the washroom of the school and molest her. They had repeated this 8-10 times," he said.

The two women were booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and were Tuesday brought before a court, which sent them to judicial custody.

The accused women hail from West Bengal and were living here near Ghata village. They had been working in the school for the past one and half years.