Man arrested for molesting partially visually-challenged girl

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Feb 16 2016 | 12:48 AM IST
Government Railway Police today arrested a 33-year-old man for allegedly molesting a partially visually-challenged girl at suburban Khar railway station on December 22 last year.
The accused, identified as Rohit Jayantilal Nandu, was a resident of Dahisar in north Mumbai, GRP officials said, adding they were trying to identify him for the last one and a half months.
According to the victim, a law student, on December 22 she was waiting for the train on platform number 3 of Khar station when an unidentified man accosted her and proposed to her, police said.
She declined and tried to ward him off, but he persisted. He fled when she called out for help, they said.
The man's image was captured in CCTV cameras and it was shown to as many as 2,000 people including railway stall workers, boot-polishers, autorickshaw drivers, college students, teachers, local people of suburban Khar, Andheri, Malad and Churchate, police said.
The CCTV footage showed him talking about a sweet shop in Malad area, so the police kept a vigil at the shop too.
After identifying him, Nandu was arrested from his house this afternoon and has been been booked under section 354 (molestation) of the IPC, GRP officials said.
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First Published: Feb 16 2016 | 12:48 AM IST

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