The Aarey rape case has shaken up the entire police department and Zone VIII of Mumbai police and several units of the Crime Branch are parallelly investigating the case. ACP (Sahar division) Madhukar Sankhe said, “The whole of Sahar police station is investigating the matter along with several other teams of the Mumbai police and Crime Branch units.

Three Sahar police station teams have been formed to look for clues.” ACP Sankhe added that, contrary to what the police had thought earlier, the accused is not known to the girl. Police officials said they had thought that the girl knew the accused because she had referred to him as “rickshaw uncle”.