Two cases of minors being raped were reported from Chinchwad, Pune, by persons living in the victims' vicinity. Police said that a 27-year-old employee of software firm in Pune identified as Mohsin Sheikh,was arrested by the Nigdi police for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl on Tuesday. According to that Police, the accused, resident of a housing society in Chinchwad, allegedly lured the minor, who resided in the same housing society with chocolates, before sexually assaulting her. Police said that the suspect first established contact with the minor three months ago. Sub-inspector of Nigdi police station, VS Valte, said that for the last three months, Sheikh consistently lured the girl and would take her to his house and rape her. This had happened several times. Based on the police complaint filed by the parents they have arrested him and would produce him in court.” The family approached the police station and lodged the complaint on Tuesday night. A family member of the victim said that they knew Sheikh as they lived in same housing society and nobody suspected that he would do such a thing . Sheikh has been booked under Section 376 [rape] of the IPC and Sections 3 (D) 4,7 and 8 of Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. In yet another case, police said that a banished robber has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping his four-year-old niece in Chinchwad on Tuesday. After the victim’s parents, ork as labourers at a construction site in Chinchwad, filed a police complaint accusing Uchappa Mangalur, 25, of sexually assaulting their daughter between 6.30 pm and 9 pm on Tuesday, the suspect was arrested. Police said that the suspect Mangalur also resides in the same vicinity as the minor. Initially, the parents were worried as the girl was not to be found. However, when she eventually returned home, her mother found wounds on her neck and body. The parents immediately rushed her to the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, from where she was moved to Sassoon hospital. On Wednesday, they received a medical report confirming sexual assault. “The accused was originally banished under Section 392 and has now been booked under Section 376 [rape] of the Indian penal code (IPC) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). API Rohini Shewale, Chinchwad police station aid that the girl was undergoing treatment.