Mumbai: FIR registered over raunchy bash at police quarters

A group of men seen dancing with a transgender person, who had allegedly come to bless the constable’s five-year-old son. Pic/Atul Kamble

The Wadala Truck Terminal police have registered a case over the birthday celebrations of a constable's son at Mumbai's Pratiksha Nagar police quarters in Sion East. The police took action after a mid-day photojournalist captured a group of people dancing raunchily.

Sources said charges have been pressed against constable Praveen Sarvade for the gathering of a crowd in violation of Covid-19 norms. On Saturday, the police recorded the statements of Sarvade, a trans person identified as Sultan and a certain Rahul. They said the police are trying to identify all those who attended the obscene bash through the photographs shared by mid-day.

A police officer said, "There is a ban on gathering during the pandemic. Since many people had gathered for the birthday party, a case has been registered under IPC section 188 [disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant]." The officer added, "The people seen in the photos are being identified and allegations of doing obscene dance at the party are also being verified."

On the night of July 23, Sarvade had organised a party to celebrate his son's fifth birthday. Some of his guests went to flat number 704 in the ‘C' wing of the police quarters since it was empty. Sarvade, who lives in flat number 202, said his friend had called the transgender to bless the child, but his guests took the person to the seventh floor and behaved in an obscene manner while dancing with the transgender person.

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