Mumbai crime: Step-dad threatens teen with sickle, rapes her repeatedly

In a shameful day for the city four incidents of rape all involving minors were reported from various areas on Thursday In one such case a teenager was raped by her stepfather In all cases the cops have arrested the accused and in three cases they have been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act POCSOMonster stepdadA 30yearold man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping his 15yearold stepdaughter twice last week in Mulund The accused raped her by threatening to kill her with a sickle the police saidThe survivor and her 12yearold sister study in a madrassa in Malegaon and had recently come to their motherrsquos house in Mulund to spend their vacation Their mother lives with her four kids and second husband the accusedAs per the survivorsstatement to police the accused raped the girl twice at his residence when no one was there ldquoWhen the girl would oppose him he would assault her abuse her and threaten to kill her with a sickle if she did not give inrdquo said Madhav More senior inspector of Navghar Mulund police stationSince the survivor was terrified she did not even tell her mother about the rape But recently she approached a woman in the neighbourhood who took her to a social activist in the areaAfter the survivor narrated her ordeal to the social activist she was taken to Navghar police station on Thursday and a complaint was registeredPolice immediately acted on the complaint and arrested the accused on ThursdayldquoThe accused does odd jobs for a living He has been booked under relevant sections of the IPC and POCSO Act for raping his minor stepdaughter repeatedly criminal intimidation and abuserdquo said MoreThe police have recovered the sickle and the survivor has been sent to Dongri childrenrsquos home More added4yrold raped in DindoshiPolice have booked a 19yearold boy for allegedly raping a fouryearold on Thursday nightAccording to the police the accused is one of the survivorrsquos neighbours at Dindoshi He has been identified as Suraj aka Surya Mandal Many times the survivor used to go to Surajrsquos house to play with himAccording to the Dindoshi police on Thursday night the survivor was alone at home when her mother went to a public toilet nearby Her father was at work When Suraj learnt of this he lured the survivor with toys and chocolates to his house and raped her The survivor began to bleed heavily and returned to her house crying Shocked neighbours asked her what had happened When her mother asked her who had assaulted her the survivor pointed to Surajrsquos house Angry neighbours went to his house and beat him up and handed him over to the police5yrold kidnapped and sodomisedA 30yearold man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sodomising a fiveyearold boy in Wadala on Thursday The survivor has sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment at Sion hospital DCP zone IV Ashok Dudhe confirmed the incidentThe police said that the accused Ajaykumar C Sahu a carpenter by profession on Thursday afternoon lured the boy with some eatables when he was playing outside his house The survivorrsquos mother was busy in her chores while his father was out on workldquoThe accused took the survivor to his room and sodomised him After few hours when the survivor returned home he experienced pain in his private parts and narrated the ordeal to his motherrdquo said Gajanan Tapale inspectorincharge of the Wadala TT police stationThe survivor took his mother to the accusedrsquos home and identified the accused His parents then lodged a police complaint ldquoWe immediately arrested the accused from his house His clothes have also been seized for investigationrdquo Tapale said The accused has also been charged under Section 363 kidnapping of IPCBMC cleaner sexually assaults 5yrold girlThe Bhandup police arrested a 25yearold civic employee on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a fiveyearold girl in his neighbourhood She is undergoing treatment at Sion hospitalDCP Zone VII Dr Vinaykumar Rathod said that the accused has been arrested under the POCSO ActAccording to the police the accused Shivaji R Tilotkar a cleaner with the BMC would always take the girl to his house to play with her hence her parents never objected to thisOn Thursday too he called her to his house ldquoHe then took the girl to the mezzanine floor and sexually assaulted her The assault was so brutal that she sustained multiple injuries to her private partsrdquo said an officer from the Bhandup police stationPolice said sensing that the survivorrsquos screams would alert people Tilotkar let her go home She started weeping when she met her motherldquoWhen her mother asked her what had happened she narrated her ordeal to herrdquo said Shripad Kale senior inspector of Bhandup police stationThe matter was then reported to the police by the parents and an offence was registered against Tilotkar ldquoHe was arrested from his homerdquo Kale saidPolice are probing whether the accused has done similar acts in the past as well