Calcutta, March 8: An eight-year-old girl was molested by a chicken shop owner on Tiljala Road under Karaya police station this afternoon.

The girls’ neighbours in Dilkhusha Street — opposite Tiljala Road — beat up Mohammed Ismail, 23, but he managed to flee.

Police said the girl, the daughter of a domestic help, was playing on the road when Ismail called her into his shop and molested her. She went home crying and told her mother about it. The neighbours then stormed into Ismail’s shop while her mother went to the police.