A senior ticket checker with the Central Railway was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old girl at Chembur station.

The incident was reported around 5.30pm. The girl, a college student, was meeting her friends at the station. After a while, she was about to head back home when the accused, Santosh Dhumale (45), asked her to produce a ticket. He then allegedly touched her inappropriately & also hit her on the head.

"The girl & her father approached us to lodge a complaint. We immediately went to the station & took Dhumale into custody. He will be produced before a sessions court. We will inform his superiors in CR of his arrest on Friday," said Rajendra Pal, senior inspector of Wadala GRP. Dhumale was booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act & under section 354 of IPC for outraging a woman's modesty.

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