Mumbai: 19 rape cases against minor girls under POCSO Act registered in 2 days

As per data revealed by the Mumbai police, in the last 8 days, the city has witnessed 59 rape with POSCO cases; 15 and 11 cases were registered on August 26 and August 30 respectively. Earlier, on average daily 12 rape and POSCO cases were registered till 23 August.

Of the total cases, three of them were particularly alarming. Here are the details of these cases:

Case 1:

According to the police sources, a 17-year-old minor boy raped a 16-year-old girl. The girl is 8 weeks pregnant. On the complaint of the victim’s girl, Malad police registered a case, caught the accused boy, and sent him to a Dongri children’s home.

Since the incident happened within the limits of Kandivali police station, the case has been handed over to Kandivali police for further investigation. The victim girl was the daughter of the accused’s tuition teacher. The accused boy used to go for tuition there befriended the victim and had physical relations with her twice in June and July at the teacher’s house.

The girl was initially admitted to Shatabdi Hospital for treatment. Later, her family transferred her to a private hospital, according to an officer from Malad police station.

Case 2:

Meanwhile, another case was reported and registered at Vile Parle police station where a 29-year-old allegedly raped a 7-year girl.

The victim revealed this to her mother and on the complaint of the mother the Vile Parle police registered the case and arrested the accused on Saturday, August 31.

The accused has a prior history of sexual offenses involving minors. He was previously booked and arrested in 2018 for allegedly raping minor girls and filming the act, according to an officer from Vile Parle police station.

Case 3:

The third incident took place in Dahisar West where an auto-rickshaw driver allegedly sexually harassed a 15-year-old student who was going home.

MHB police have registered a case and started investigating the incident. It is believed that the victim girl lives in Dahisar West and studies in a school there. On Saturday, she went to school as usual. In the afternoon, she left school in a rickshaw to go home. The driver pretended to stop the rickshaw in a municipal garden on the pretext of some problem. He parked the rickshaw near a garden. And he started physically abusing the girl by touching her body and other parts.

On returning home, the girl informed her family about the sexual harassment. The girl’s mother approached the MHB police station and registered a case against the unknown rickshaw driver. The Police are searching for the rickshaw driver through CCTV footage.