Muzaffarnagar (UP), May 21 (PTI) A youth has been arrested for sexually harassing a 16-year-old girl in this district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday.

Nitesh (21) misbehaved with the girl on Thursday in a village under Bhopa police station, they said.

A case was registered against the accused under IPC sections 354-(D) and 506, and sections 7 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Sub-Inspector Yogender Singh said. PTI Corr MA

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