Police arrested three caretakers at a pre-primary school in Khar (West) on Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing a three-year-old child. The accused women are currently in judicial custody. The first to report incident on July 13.

In the second week of July, the child’s parents approached the school management and accused the caretakers of sexually abusing her in the washroom. After reviewing the incident, the principal filed a case at Khar police station.

The police opened an investigation and recorded the statements of the accused on the same day, before arresting them. After filing the FIR, the management issued a statement, “We are deeply committed to providing a safe and nurturing environment to all students, and we will continue to take all necessary steps to address this situation promptly and appropriately.”

Mira Bhayandar: The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) attached to the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police has arrested two people including a woman hailing from Tanzania who were found to be in possession of narcotic substance mephedrone (MD) worth more than Rs. 2 crore.

Acting on an information, the ANC led by police inspector- Amar Marathe laid a trap near the regional transport office (RTO) in the Ghodbunder area and apprehended the peddlers who have been identified as- Saud Siraj Syed (37) and Sabrina Nuzumbi (34). Upon frisking the team found 1009 grams of MD which was stuffed in their sack bags. The value of the seized contraband is pegged at Rs.2.01 crore.

While Saud is a resident of Beverly Park in Mira Road, Sabrina who hails from Kariakoo village of Dar-es-Salaam region in Tanzania was presently staying in the Pragati Nagar area of Nallasopara. While both were booked under the relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, an additional charge under section 14A of the Foreigners Act, 1946 for entry into the country without obtaining a permit from the authorities.

It is suspected that Sabrina’s visa had already expired and she was staying in the country in an unauthorised manner. Apart from running a background check to gather information about their suspected involvement in other similar offences, the ANC is also trying to ascertain the source of the consignment and potential buyers. Meanwhile both have been remanded to custody after they were produced before the court on Monday.

Navi Mumbai: Raigad Local Crime Branch (LCB), has arrested four men from Rewas port for smuggling diesel in the arabian sea. Police have also seized 33,000 litres of diesel along with the boat in which they were smuggling. The diesel and the boat seized amounts to a total of Rs 36.40 lakh. According to the police, the accused smuggled the diesel from the bigger ships in the sea and sold to the smaller boats at a lesser rate than the market rate.

The accused arrested have been identified as Ganesh Kashinath Koli (40), Vinayak Narayan Koli (45), Gajanan Atmaram Koli (45) and Mukesh Khabardat Nishad (45), all residents of Bodni Koliwada in Alibag taluka of Raigad district. Acting on a tip-off that about the accused smuggling diesel in a boat at Rewas port, the police had laid a trap at the jetty at Rewas.

“When the boat arrived, we nabbed the accused and seized the diesel that was being smuggled. The accused did not do any other job and were into smuggling itself. They either stole the diesel from the larger ships or bought the from them at lesser rate and then sold it further to the smaller boats,” police inspector Balasaheb Khade from Raigad LCB said.

The case against the accused was registered under section 287 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and sections of The Essential Commodities Act and The Petroleum Act. “Since the punishment in this case as per the law is below seven years, they are not arrested and a notice has been served to them as the per the procedure,” the officer added.