Man held for sexually assaulting four-year-old girl in Borivali

A 55-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl under the pretext of giving her chilled water to drink in Borivali area of Mumbai, the police said, reported the PTI.

According to police, the accused allegedly threatened the girl with dire consequences after committing the crime in his shanty on Sunday afternoon.

A police official said the parents of the girl were worried about her changed behaviour as she stopped talking and looked scared.

“After she narrated her ordeal, the parents approached MHB police station and lodged an FIR against the suspect,” the official said.

He was arrested under relevant sections of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Further investigation is underway, the official added, according to the PTI.

Pune bus rape case: Cops file 893-page chargesheet

Meanwhile, the Pune Police in Maharashtra, last week, filed an 893-page chargesheet in connection with the Pune bus rape case of February this year, the police officials said.

The incident had took place inside a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus at the Swargate bus depot in Pune in the early hours of February 25, an official said on Friday, reported the PTI.

A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped inside a parked Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus at the sprawling depot allegedly by a history-sheeter who was identified as Dattatray Gade, as per the police.

“In order to make our case watertight, we have included physical, biological, technical, circumstantial and scientific evidence in the chargesheet. We obtained these through the help of experts in the medical, cyber, sound and forensic fields,” the official said, as per the PTI.

The 893-page chargesheet filed in the court of the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) contains the statements of 82 witnesses, the official added.

As per the police, the victim was waiting for a bus to go to Satara when the accused approached her posing as a conductor of a bus.

On the pretext of offering help, he took her to a waiting bus that was unlit, bolted the doors and raped her inside.

Gade, who faces half a dozen criminal cases, was nabbed from an agriculture field near his native Gunat village under Shirur tehsil here with the help of drones and sniffer dogs.

(with PTI inputs)