Ranchi, 16 December (HS). Firoz Ali alias Sugga, arrested for molesting girl students in the Kotwali police station area of the city, was sent to jail on Monday. He is a resident of Nala Road, Hindpiri.
City SP Rajkumar Mehta said in a press conference on Monday that the headmistress of the state-owned Shri Shiv Narayan Marwari Girls Plus Two School located in Upper Bazaar accused a middle-aged man riding a scooty of molesting, talking obscenely and inappropriately with the school-going girls around Sonar Gali. Application was made regarding touching. Considering the seriousness of the case, an FIR was registered and the police team led by Kotwali DSP Prakash Soy, on the instructions of SSP Chandan Sinha, arrested the accused Firoz Ali on Sunday night from Church Road in Lower Bazaar area.
It is noteworthy that the police had announced a reward for anyone giving information about the accused. Chief Minister Hemant Soren had taken cognizance of this molestation case. The Chief Minister had ordered Ranchi Police to inform and take strict action against the accused. In the case, IG, DIG and SSP had inspected the incident site and directed to arrest the accused.