The father of the 16-year-old girl who died in a fire outbreak on May 12, 2019, in Dadar police colony had filed a case against a police constable under the stringent Posco Act for sexually harassing his daughter six months ago. The girl was burnt to death on Sunday afternoon when a fire broke out in her flat in the police quarters. She had been locked inside the house while her parents had gone to attend a wedding in Thane. The fire brigade had recovered a bottle of suspected kerosene in the flat and is not ruling out the possibility of suicide.

Officials looking into the case stated the girl studying in Class 9 student in a convent school, was at home alone when the police constable working with the motor transport department, allegedly molested her. Her father who is a head constable lodged a complaint against the offender and the police arrested him under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. According to TOI, once the accused was released on bail, he again started harassing the girl, following which her father lodged a non cognisable complaint. After the complaint, the motor transport department suspended the offender and made sure he vacated his allotted room in the colony.