Thane, March 10 Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl with a mental disability in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.
The incident took place in the Bhiwandi area on December 12 last year, but the victim's mother approached the police with a complaint on March 8, without specifying the reason for the delay in reporting the crime, they said.
The victim and her sister had gone to a relative's house, where the accused, apparently aware of the girl's intellectual disability, allegedly touched her inappropriately, an official from the Kongaon police station said.
Based on the complaint, a case was registered on Monday against the accused under sections 74 (assault or use of criminal force against a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 78 (stalking) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, as well as provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
An investigation into the case is underway.