Navi Mumbai: Kharghar police in Navi Mumbai launched a manhunt for a 45-year-old security guard at an elite high-rise in Sector 23, Kharghar, after he was booked for allegedly molesting an 8-year-old girl who lived in the building on Friday around 4.30 pm, when she was waiting near the lift on the ground floor.An FIR was registered at Kharghar police station after the girl’s father filed a complaint against the accused. The girl, on reaching home, told her parents about ‘bad touch’ by the security guard and described how he had inappropriately touched her from head to toe.The accused security guard, identified as Suraj Kumar Ramjit Singh, was booked under the BNS section for the offence of assault or use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage or insult her modesty, along with a POCSO Act section that prescribes the punishment for non-penetrative sexual assault.Sanjay Joshi, senior inspector of Kharghar, said, “After the victim minor girl narrated the incident to her parents, her father questioned the accused security guard Singh and even slapped him for his act. As Singh feared that the girl’s father would lodge a police complaint, he escaped from the building. We have summoned the concerned official of the security agency through whom the accused Singh was appointed as security guard at the said housing society in Kharghar. The official has been told to provide the residence address of the accused guard Singh or produce him at the police station.
