Indian police detained a senior student suspected of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old minor girl inside a school bus in Delhi’s Begampur area in Rohini, India Today reported.

The mother of the victim found out about the incident on August 23, when she noticed that the girl’s bag was soaked with urine. When inquired, the child told her mother she had been molested by a senior student on the school bus.

The parents alleged the chairman of the school asked them to withdraw the complaint after they reported the incident to the school authorities on the following day.

They claimed that the school management even disclosed the identity of the child in their society circle.

A senior Indian police officer said a case under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 228A (disclosure of identity of the victim of certain offences) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 10/21 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act has been registered at Begumpur police station.

Earlier, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has also sought details about the action taken in connection with the case.

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal demanded a copy of the first information report and information of any arrests made in the case.

In its notice, the Commission also inquired whether any FIR was registered against the chairman, school manager, principal, vice principal and other school authorities under the Pocso Act, for allegedly not reporting the matter and revealing the identity of the child.