The Maharashtra government on Tuesday suspended three police officials for dereliction of duty in connection with the alleged sexual assault of two girls in Thane’s Badlapur, near Mumbai.
The girls, aged three and four, were allegedly sexually assaulted by a male attendant at their school on August 12. One of them told her parents about the assault on August 16, after which they approached the police.
The accused man was arrested the next day and booked under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, according to PTI.
Opposition leaders alleged that the parents of the girls were made to wait for 11 hours at the Badlapur police station before their complaints were registered, the news agency reported.
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the home portfolio, said that a senior police inspector, assistant sub-inspector and head constable were suspended for delaying action in the case.