Top Mumbai Crime News Wrap: Tempo driver held for raping 7-year-old, Pregnant woman killed by brother-in-law

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Updated On: 2022-04-30 11:41 AM IST

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Mumbai: Man arrested for abducting, raping 7-year-old girl in Ghatkopar

A 35-year-old man from Asalpha was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl. It turned out that the man had been allowed to go home during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest prisons. Accused Sachin Shama faces five more cases for preying on young girls. His wife said her husband should be hanged for the heinous crimes that he has committed.

Mumbai: Pregnant woman killed by brother-in-law in Kurla

Kurla police arrested a man for allegedly strangulating a 20-year-old woman to death on Wednesday afternoon. The accused is identified as Arjun Sonkar, cousin brother of the deceased woman's husband. The woman was 7-months pregnant.

On April 27, around 1.30 pm, Komal Sanjay Sonkar, a resident of the Indira Nagar slum in Kurla West was found bleeding from the mouth and nose by a neighbor, Kusum Deepak Jaiswal. the neighbor reported the incident to the police.

'Runaway Bride' walks away with jewellery, cash worth Rs 4L 3 days after wedding

A 28-year-old woman got a Malad-based family to pay her Rs 1.5 lakh to marry their son, who allegedly has some intellectual disability and a stammering problem, and then ran away three days after the wedding with jewellery and cash worth Rs 4.39 lakh. Malad Police have booked the woman, Asha Gaikwad, along with Kamlesh Kadam, the agent who introduced her to the family, and Manisha Kashyap who claimed to be Asha’s aunt. Cops say this is likely a part of a big racket. Asha, however, in her last call, claimed she was married and had two kids and did it only for the money.

Mumbai auto-rickshaw driver loses entire savings after passenger steals his phone

A 35-year-old auto-rickshaw driver has been struggling for justice since mid-January, when a person posed as a passenger and later snatched his mobile phone. The driver later found his bank account had also been cleaned out. To add to this, the driver, Acchelal Yadav, claimed the police manipulated the facts and lodged a theft case when it amounts to robbery, as the mobile phon

Law officer in Mumbai police commissioner's office duped into buying stolen car on OLX

A law officer in the office of the Mumbai commissioner of police has been duped of Rs 4.8 lakh by a couple, who sold her a stolen car through online marketplace OLX. The accused, habitual offenders, are currently in jail in a different case.
The 37-year-old Malad East resident, who does not wish to be named, purchased a Maruti Suzuki Ciaz from the accused—Tigen Alyaris and his girlfriend Sweta Pandey—in November.

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