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MUMBAI: Vakola police on Monday arrested a school security guard on charges of raping a three-year-old student last week. A teacher and a peon were also arrested for trying to cover up the crime.

The girl is a junior KG student of Kalina Education Society School's English medium section. The security guard, Telam Singh, who has worked at the school for three decades, committed the crime in a toilet in the school last Thursday. The teacher, Elison Mirinda, and peon, Rekha Kamble, had threatened the victim not to tell anyone what had happened. The school has denied the allegations.

Senior police inspector Rajendra Pardesi of Vakola police station said, "We arrested the security guard and others who threatened and assaulted the victim."

The three-year-old told her mother of the crime she had been subjected to. She told her parents how Telam Singh took her to a toilet and raped her. Her mother took her to Sion Hospital and had her examined, and learned that her daughter had, in fact, been sexually assaulted. The mother reported the matter to the Vakola police and they registered the offence after a medical examination of the girl.

The police visited the school with the victim and her mother on Friday, and identified the accused.

The police had picked up another guard in connection with the case, found he had no role in the crime, and let him off after questioning.

Singh lives in the vicinity and teachers said he was not in school at the time of the alleged incident as he was on night duty.

They said all teachers and school staffers are females, except for the two guards, who were not allowed in the building during school hours.

"No such incident took place in school. The mother is trying to drag the school into a controversy for unknown reasons," a teacher, Malina Pinto, said.