Mumbai police arrest salon employee in Khar for molesting scriptwriter

A police official told newswire PTI that the accused, Deepak Kumar Mishra, allegedly touched the woman inappropriately while giving her a massage on Saturday night.

The woman immediately went to Khar police station and lodged an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), the official said, adding that Mishra was arrested.

Meanwhile, a special POCSO court in Maharashtra’s Thane sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl.

Special POCSO Act Judge DS Deshmukh, in his order of January 29, also fined Rajeshsingh Ambikasingh Yadav, a rickshaw driver from Kashimira area, Rs 5,000.

On November 18, 2018, Yadav, who was a friend of the victim`s father, took her to his house and subjected her to aggravated penetrative sexual assault.

After she narrated her ordeal to her family, a case under Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered.

Nine witnesses were examined, including the victim and her mother, Special Public Prosecutor Vivek Kadu said.

The judge rejected the defence`s claim that a false complaint had been registered as the victim`s father was supposed to repay a loan of Rs 20,000 to the accused.

In another news, three persons have been arrested in connection with the recovery of two pistols in Maharashtra`s Akola district, and one of the accused was allegedly in touch with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, police said on Sunday.