The Samata Nagar police arrested an auto-rickshaw driver for stalking and molesting an eight-year-old girl while on her way to her dance classes in Kandivali. The man was arrested during a nakabandi at Kandivli railway station on Saturday, Hindustan Times reported.

The man, identified as Harish Mishra, lived to a slum adjacent to a building where the girl stays. According to the police, he did not have a criminal history. The incident happened on Friday at around 7.30 pm, when the minor girl was going to her dance classes in a building in  Ashok Nagar with her 11-year-old friend.