Maharashtra school girls sexually abused, parents storm Badlapur railway station, Mumbai local trains halted | 10 points

Maharashtra has been shaken by a harrowing incident of sexual abuse involving two minor girls at a school in Thane's Badlapur. The accused, identified as 23-year-old Akshay Shinde, a cleaner at the school, allegedly abused the three- and four-year-old girls in the school’s washroom.

One of the victims lives with her grandparents, maternal uncle, and aunt in Badlapur as her parents live in Kalyan for work. On August 13, the father of another girl from the school said that his daughter said that a worker from the school touched her private part. He said he would get his daughter medically examined. This made the first girl's grandfather suspicious and he got the girl medically examined.

Medical examinations confirmed the sexual abuse, leading to the filing of an FIR on August 17 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.