KALPETTA: A private bus driver was arrested for molesting minor girls at a resort. Bus driver Mursheed Muhammad (24), a native of Kozhikode was arrested.

The accused would take minor female students travelling on the bus to resorts in Wayanad after establishing a good relationship with them. Mursheed was arrested after the parents of a girl from Malappuram, who had been assaulted in this way, filed a complaint at Vazhakad station.

According to the complaint, the accused raped the girl after taking her to a resort in Kalpetta. The Kalpetta police registered a case under the POCSO Act and started an investigation. After tracing his phone number, the police caught Mursheed with another girl at another resort in Kalpetta on Monday morning. The accused was produced in court and remanded.