Noida: In a shocking incident in UP’s Noida, a four-year-old school girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by the driver of her school bus on Friday. The incident came to light when the victim who is studying in the kindergarten of a private school in Sector 70, returned home and started crying. When her mother asked, she told what had happened. The family then approached police and a case was registered against the accused.

Gautam Buddh Nagar's Superintendent of Police, Rural, Vineet Jaisawal said the child was sent for medical examination and an FIR was registered at the Surajpur police station and the accused was booked under IPC sections 376 A, 376B (rape and related offences). The school bus driver is at large, was also booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

To news agency PTI, the mother of the girl reported that "I was at my office in Gurgaon on October 9 and my husband went to pick up our daughter when she returned from the school on the bus in the afternoon."

"As soon as she alighted and saw her father, the girl started crying and on being asked the reason she told her father that 'driver bhaiyya' had taken her undergarments off and touched her inappropriately," she said.

The mother of the 4-year old school girl had recorded the girl said about the driver. To this, the daughter asked not to record the video as the driver ‘would beat her up’, if he comes to know that she had told anyone about the incident. The parents of the girl also rang up the school principal and the child's class teacher to inform them about the incident and sought action. The victim's mother accused that the school management had assured her of "strict action" but did nothing has been done.