Mumbai Crime: 57-year-old man molests minor; video goes viral

The Mumbai Police are on the lookout for a person who shot the video of a man molesting a girl which went viral on social media The accused in the video was arrested soon after the incident The local police has been asked to find out who shot the video an IPS officer stated After the video started circulating on social media the Mumbai Police on social media platform Twitter requested requesting people to stop sharing the video and asked the cyber police department to pull the video downVideo of an accused molesting a minor girl from neighbourhood is being circulated widely V understand itrsquos being shared out of concern but V request you to respect privacy of the family Accused is in judicial custody amp investigation is on Itrsquos an offence to share such contentmdash Mumbai Police MumbaiPolice June 24 2019The incident occurred on June 8 when the 10yearold girl had been sent by her mother to buy some snacks In her statement to the police the mother stated that as they had relatives over she had sent her daughter to a nearby shop to fetch some snacks and on the way a neighbour asked the girl to get some snacks for him as well she addedAlso ReadMan enters house molests sleeping woman act caught on CCTVAccording to the Indian Express on her way back the 57yearold accused who is married and has two sons and a daughter asked the minor to come inside the house after which he allegedly started kissing her and touching her inappropriately the police informed and someone shot a video of the incident The girl told her mother about the incident following which an FIR was filed against the accused on June 8 and he was arrested the same day and is in judicial custodyAlso Read60yearold neighbour held for molesting minor in MedchalTop news stories of the daySex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in MumbaiIn the worlds second populous nation the obsession with sex toys shouldnt come as a surprise What however does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country The toys are regularly detained by the Customs Department A Right To Information query filed by activist Prithviraj Maske revealed that from 2017 to January 2019 the Airport Special Courier Cell of the Mumbai Customs Department had seized sex toys worth Rs 8 crore Read full storyMurder Mystery Solved 3D face helps cops crack caseThe forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a twomonthold murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology which they used to put a face on the victims severely fractured skull Yogesh Rane a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym He was caught after he attempted to kill another coworker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishors sudden disappearance Read full storyMumbai Corporators oppose parking fines say additionl infra requiredThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations BMC decision to tackle the citys illegal parking menace has fallen flat with corporators opposing the move of charging hefty fines without providing the required infrastructure or additional parking space to citizens Not only members of the ruling coalition even the Opposition opposed the move at the civic bodys general body meeting on Monday Read full storyMumbais top cop pedals to 1500 km cycling historyIndian Police Service IPS Krishna Prakash special inspector general of police IGP administration Maharashtra is back home in Mumbai after creating cycling history The tough cop has finished a stupendous fourth in the mens open category of the Race Across West RAW in USA The race which requires cycling for approximately 1500 km across four American states started on June 11 and ended on June 14 Read full storyBandra court asks police to probe case of school that blamed child for bad touchThe Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it Last year the eightyearold child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates by the school The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon was harassment Read full storyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates