Overview

• Mohd Arif was arrested on July 19 and remanded to judicial custody on charges of digitally raping a four-year-old pupil during her morning commute.
• The FIR cites violations of the POCSO Act, the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against both the driver and school manager Sandeep Kumar.
• A medical examination confirmed the girl suffered internal injuries consistent with non-consensual insertion, prompting her mother to file an FIR after the school initially ignored her complaint.
• School officials discouraged escalating the matter to police, warning of reputational damage, while the accused allegedly used caste-based slurs and threatened the family with abduction.
• Two specialized police teams have been deployed to interview van-service students and determine whether other children were also targeted.