Taking seriously the incident of sexual harassment of a three-year-old girl in a play school, Director General of Police (DGP) has directed Additional DG Aruna Mohan Rao to monitor the progress in the case.
On Thursday, Rao sought a report in the case from Superintendent of Police.
At present, the Crime branch is investigating the case and also investigating the role of Kolar police station staff in deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused. Rao said that stern action would be taken if any policeman is found guilty.
After the case has been transferred to Crime Branch, the Kolar police have handed over the case diary to the crime branch police. On Wednesday, the police team had reached the play school and inspected the scene of crime. Earlier, on Tuesday, the police had recorded statements of the victim and it had taken around four hours.
SP South Sidharth Bahuguna told that the police are also investigating the allegations of family members that the SHO of the police station was in good terms with the accused and thus he was delaying the arrest.
Meanwhile, the family members of the victim told that the girl is not becoming normal even five days after the crime. They are trying to divert her mind through different activities, but she is not behaving normal, they added.
After the incident had come to light, the school has suspended the franchise of the school from Girdhar Parisar locality.