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Pune: A worker (30) was arrested on Feb 17 morning on the charge of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl at Pune railway station. The girl woke up around 1.30am and so did the arrested worker. We launched a search for the girl and found her.”
Senior Inspector Pramod Khopikar of Government Railway Police (GRP), Pune station police station, said, “The girl was sleeping on platform number one of the station. Khopikar said, “We studied the CCTV footage of the area and tracked the worker’s movements to old parts of the city. Khopikar said, “The girl’s family slept on the platform.
The worker took her to an isolated spot near Maldhakka Chowk and sexually assaulted her. He then left the girl near the railway station and fled. We found him working there and arrested him. We have decided to conduct the trial of the case in a fast-track court. He then took her to an isolated spot near Maldhakka Chowk and sexually assaulted her. The girl started crying out of pain and he dropped her near the railway station. By then, the girl’s parents had approached the police.
They took a train from Kurduwadi to Pune and were supposed to board a connecting train to Madhya Pradesh from Pune station, Khopikar said. After the sugar cane season ended, the family wanted to go to Madhya Pradesh.