Guitar teacher faces music for ''molesting'' student; arrested

A 55-year-old guitar teacher from Mumbai has been arrested for allegedly molesting a female student, then a minor and who flew back from the US more than a decade after the crime and filed a complaint against him, police said on Monday.

A day after his arrest, the accused was on Monday produced before a local court which released him on a cash bail of Rs 15,000.

The victim was around nine years old when the accused began molesting her. She later migrated to the US for higher studies when she was 12, a police official said.

The accused sexually abused the victim for three years between 2007 and 2010 at her home in suburban Andheri when he used to give her music lessons, the official said.

The victim, now around 21 years old and studying at a college in the US, arrived here on Sunday and lodged an FIR against the accused.

After recording her statement, the Oshiwara police arrested the accused, the official said.

The victim, in her statement, alleged that the teacher used to molest her and speak in vulgar language during music lessons, he said.

"We arrested the teacher under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (molestation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

"It is an old case of the offence that took place between 2007 and 2010, before the victim went to the US," Oshiwara police station's senior inspector Dayanand Bangar said.

The accused was produced before the metropolitan court in Andheri.

Advocate Shambhu Jha, who appeared for the teacher, said, "He was released on a Rs 15,000 cash bail. We told the the court that the alleged incident took place between 2007 and 2010 and appears highly doubtful."