Police have arrested a school headmaster on suspicion of molesting a 12-year-old male student in the school toilet and his office since last June.

Malacca police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the 58-year-old was arrested on Friday by a team of police officers from the D11 branch of the Malacca contingent police headquarters’ Criminal Investigation Department at around 9pm in connection with the case.