CHANDIGARH: The police arrested a hotel employee for stalking a minor girl on Wednesday night.
The accused, 22, a resident of the city, was on Thursday produced before a local court that sent him in judicial custody. Police have recorded the statement of the girl before a judicial magistrate.
The minor’s father said in his police complaint, “The accused works at a hotel near our residence. On Wednesday evening, my 11-year-old daughter had gone to our house rooftop and came down crying. When I asked her the reason, she said a man hit her with a pen. I went to the rooftop and opened the pen. It had a slip, on which the man had written his cellphone number.”
Her father called on the number and the accused answered. Later, the complainant caught him in the hotel and apprised the police of the incident. “My daughter said he had been staring at her for the last few days,” her father added.
Police reached the spot and took the accused into custody.
Cops recorded the statement of the girl and her father. After registering a case under Section 354-D (stalking) of the IPC and Section 12 (punishable for sexual harassment) of the POCSO Act, police arrested the accused.
