MBVV police arrest 20-year-old suspect from Uttar Pradesh for raping minor in Bhayandar

Mira Bhayandar: Less than a week after he fled after sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in Bhayandar, the 20-year-old suspect was arrested by the crime branch (Zone I) attached to Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police. from a village in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

According to police, the gruesome incident was reported on November 3 between 9:15 PM and 10:15 PM. The accused, identified as Rameshkumar Ramraksha Jaiswal (20), lured the Standard I student with a chocolate and took her to the terrace of his building in Bhayandar (East).

He sexually assaulted the girl and fled. The girl narrated the ordeal to her mother, who filed a complaint with Navghar police station. Sensing the seriousness of the incident, MBVV chief Madhukar Pandey sent the crime branch personnel to conduct parallel investigations and nab the culprit at the earliest.

Thanks to electronic surveillance and input from informants, police inspector Aviraj Kurhade got some clues that the suspects had fled either to Rajkot in Gujarat or to Prayagraj in Uttar-Pradesh. Two teams were immediately formed and sent to both the states.

“The team that had gone to Uttar Pradesh was successful in arresting the perpetrator from a remote village near Meja Road area in Prayagraj with the help of our local colleagues.” said an investigating officer.

After obtaining a transit warrant from the chief judge of the Prayagraj district court, Jaiswal, who was working as a labourer, is being brought back to the city, police said. Jaiswal who