India, Sept. 14 -- The Delhi Police on Saturday said they have arrested a 32-year-old speech therapist for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl with speech difficulties at his private speech therapy centre in Rohini in outer Delhi last week.

Police said the therapist, a resident of Mustafabad in northeast Delhi, was booked under sections 74 (assault or criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 75 (sexual harassment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with Section 10 (aggravated sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act

A senior police officer said the alleged assault was reported on September 7.

"The alleged crime came to fore when the girl's mo...