Two persons have been arrested for allegedly molesting and threatening to convert a 13-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday.

A case under section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has been registered against the accused with the Bhayandar police, an official said.