India, April 26 -- A school bus driver was arrested on Thursday night on charges of sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy in Nerul, in Navi Mumbai. The accused, Sujit Das, 25, was arrested on a complaint filed by the family of the child.

According to a preliminary investigation, the incident is alleged to have taken place in the school bus, although the specific location of the assault is yet to be confirmed.

The incident in Nerul echoes another case, where two pre-primary girl students were sexually assaulted allegedly by a male cleaner in the washroom in a Badlapur school in August last year. The incidents, which triggered public outrage and led to widespread protests, surfaced when one of the children complained of pain to her pare...