MUMBAI: Two middle-aged men were arrested on Tuesday within hours of allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in at Andheri, luring her with a chocolate and a bike ride. The accused were caught thanks to an alert neighbour of the girl.
The victim studies in Gujarat and has come to the city on a vacation; she has been staying with her uncle at a slum in Andheri (W).
On Tuesday evening, Bilal Shaikh (55), who also stays in the same neighbourhood as hers and is known to her, asked her to go on a bike ride with him. Luring her with a bar of chocolate as well as money, he asked her to accompany him to his friend's house at Andheri (E), said the police, adding that he called up his friend, Riyaz Ahmed Shaikh (45), that he was bringing the girl over to his home at a slum at Lelewadi in Marol.
informing him that he was coming at his residence with the girl.
Even as Bilal left the locality with the girl, one of the neighbours reportedly spotted them and suspecting that something was amiss, he also started following them. One of the victim's neighbour's saw Bilal along with the girl on the bike while they were heading towards Marol and he started to follow them suspecting something wrong.
On reaching Marol, Bilal took the girl to Riyaz's home and they locked the room, the police said. The neighbour tried to peep inside, but he figured that the girl was in trouble as the room was completely dark, the police said. He immediately called a police officer he knew, even as he continued to keep a watch on the room from a distance. The officer, along with his team, arrived at the spot within half-an-hour. They broke open the door of the room and rescued the girl, who told the officials that the two had raped her, one after the other. She also said that she could not scream or raise an alarm as they had threatened her with dire consequences.
The police handed over the accused duo to the Sahar police, under whose jurisdiction the victim was raped. Cases of rape and kidnap have been registered and transferred to the D N Nagar police, under whose jurisdiction the accused had abducted the girl.
The police officer arrived at the spot along with his team within half-an-hour after which they broke inside the room. The victim told the police team that both the accused had raped her one after another after threatening her and promising chocolates.
The police team handed over the accused to Sahar police station under whose jurisdiction victim was raped. The police had registered the rape and kidnapping case and transferred it to D N Nagar police station for further investigation from whose jurisdiction the accused had abducted the victim.
Bilal, a driver, and Riyaz, who works in a garage at Andheri, have been remanded in police custody.
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