A 42-year-old teacher allegedly sexually harassed a 13-year-old female student by sending obscene messages on WhatsApp chat and inappropriately touching the girl while in school in a village in Daund tehsil of Pune Rural. The Pune Rural Police have arrested the Pune teacher along with the headmaster of the school, as reported by the news agency ANI.

Pune Rural Police SP Pankaj Deshmukh told ANI that the police took a suo moto cognizance of the incident on Thursday and a senior police official visited the girl`s village to verify the facts. The police immediately registered a case after receiving a formal complaint from the victim`s parents.