The Navi Mumbai police arrested a 36-year-old man for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl at a daycare centre run by his wife at Khandeshwar. The victim had become unusually withdrawn at home and refused to go to the daycare centre following which the parents took her to a counselling centre where she narrated the ordeal.

The parents then approached the Khandeshwar police and registered an FIR against the accused leading to his arrest on Friday. According to the police, the victim is a Std II student and her working parents keep her in a daycare centre that operated from a flat. The fee was hardly Rs 500 to Rs 1,000.