Mumbai crime: Child molester on the prowl in western suburbs

The oneeyed molester targeting minor girls in the western suburbs tried adding one more to the list On Sunday March 9 a 10yearold girl reported that a man with one eye tried molesting her in the afternoonPolice have been trying to nab the accused since October last year The man has allegedly molested more than a dozen girls in western suburbs mdash Santacruz Bandra D N Nagar Amboli Andheri etcThe molester targets girls between the age of 10 to 15 years in deserted areas of the western suburbsThe suspect is believed to be in his early 30s and targets girls between the age of 10 to 15 years in the deserted lanes and shantytowns He has a unique identification mark mdash one of his eyes is damaged It is completely white whether itrsquos artificial or not is not knownIn the incident which occurred on Sunday the man caught hold of the girl in a deserted area and tried molesting herHowever the child wrested free of his grip and escaped The girl narrated the incident to her family who then filed a complaint at the DN Nagar police station It was then transferred to the Amboli police since the incident occurred in their jurisdictionHowever CCTV cameras in the area managed to catch the accused ldquoBased on the CCTV grabs cops roped in a sketch artist We now have a clearer image of the accused With its help we hope he will be behind bars very soonrdquo an officer from Amboli police station saidIdentifying the manThe last incident was reported in the last week of January in which the accused had molested a girl at knifepoint in the eveningldquoAs we began investigations we found that on Ceaser Road Amboli the accused had passed by a restaurant CCTV cameras outside the eatery captured the accused and we showed the footage to the girls who identified him immediately The footage is blurred so we have roped in a sketch artist to get a clearer imagerdquo informed S A Khanvilkar inspector at Amboli police station He added ldquoThe accused had a prominent identification mark based on which we found out that he is a repeat offender and that there are similar cases registered against him in our police station as well as other areasrdquoBased on the girlsrsquo descriptions and the footage police have gotten a sketch preparedldquoThe crime spots are hardly 15 minutes away from each otherrdquo said another officerThe Amboli police have made three teams who patrol during the time the offences were committedmiddayrsquos report in JanuaryThe beginningAs per police records the first incident was reported in Santacruz in October The suspect approached an eightyearold girl and after telling her he was her fatherrsquos friend took her to an isolated place stripped and molested her and fled the spotA senior police officer from Santacruz police station said ldquoWe have rounded up several drug addicts and habitual criminals but the accused was not identified In several cases we have come to know that families have come forward to complain but the FIR was not takenrdquoldquoThe accused is still roaming free after so many reports about him he is a psycho targeting minor girls He has molested girls in Bandra Kherwadi Santacruz Vakola Oshiwara Versova Goregaon D N Nagar Ambolirdquo said a senior IPS officer