Six arrested for molestation of teenage girl on Mumbai road

March 13, 2014 08:57

Police today arrested three more persons accused of molesting and almost stripping an18-year-old girl on a street in suburban Kandivali (West) inbroad daylight, taking the total number of arrested so far to six.

The three accused nabbed today were Habib,19, and twominors, the police said.

The police had yesterday arrested Fayyaz Ahmed Khan, SarojKhan and Naushad Khan, all in their twenties, and booked themunder section 354 (molestation) of the Indian Penal Code.

On Monday, the girl was allegedly groped and almost stripped by a group of a dozen young men near Hindustan Naka in Kandivali in broad daylight. Shockingly, when the girl, trying to escape the molesters, entered a restaurant, the people there drove her out before she was finally rescued by a police constable on patrolling duty and some passersby.

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