Mumbai police arrest salon employee in Khar for molesting scriptwriter

Mumbai police has arrested a 41yearold staffer of a salon located in Khar area of Mumbai for allegedly molesting a 22yearold scriptwriter when she visited the facility for a massageA police official told newswire PTI that the accused Deepak Kumar Mishra allegedly touched the woman inappropriately while giving her a massage on Saturday nightThe woman immediately went to Khar police station and lodged an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code IPC including 354 Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty the official said adding that Mishra was arrestedMeanwhile a special POCSO court in Maharashtrarsquos Thane sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for sexually abusing an 8yearold girlSpecial POCSO Act Judge DS Deshmukh in his order of January 29 also fined Rajeshsingh Ambikasingh Yadav a rickshaw driver from Kashimira area Rs 5000On November 18 2018 Yadav who was a friend of the victims father took her to his house and subjected her to aggravated penetrative sexual assaultAfter she narrated her ordeal to her family a case under Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act was registeredNine witnesses were examined including the victim and her mother Special Public Prosecutor Vivek Kadu saidThe judge rejected the defences claim that a false complaint had been registered as the victims father was supposed to repay a loan of Rs 20000 to the accusedIn another news three persons have been arrested in connection with the recovery of two pistols in Maharashtras Akola district and one of the accused was allegedly in touch with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi police said on SundayActing on a tipoff the police had recovered two pistols and nine rounds from a well in Akot on January 16 a police release saidA case was registered under the Arms Act and the police zeroed in on the accused Praful Vinayak Chavan 25 and Ajay Tularam Dethe 27 and apprehended them on January 17 it saidDuring a probe it was found that Shubham Rameshvar Lonkar 25 a resident of Pune had directed an unidentified supplier to deliver the weapons to Chavan the release saidLonkar who was the mastermind was arrested on January 30 it saidInvestigations revealed that Lonkar had allegedly done WhatsApp video calls with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi twice in 2022 and 2023 and he had also received WhatsApp audio calls from three international numbers including from the gangsters brother Anmol Bishnoi the release statedThe investigation is focused on tracing middlemen ascertaining the motive behind the parcel drop in Akola The police are also further verifying alleged audio and video WhatsApp calls with Lawrence Bishnoi and othersrdquo Superintendent of Police Bachchan Singh said With inputs from agencies