Navi Mumbai police rescue 14-year-old girl after she jumps into nullah in Taloja

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Navi Mumbai police saved a 14-year-old girl who jumped into a nullah in the Taloja area. The incident occurred in the Taloja phase-II locality on Sunday morning, an official said on Monday.

In a video that surfaced on social media, the girl is seen standing at the edge of a small bridge on a nullah, with bystanders trying to convince her to get down from there, newswire PTI reported.

Despite repeated requests, she eventually jumped off the bridge into the nullah.

Bystanders had alerted the police, and some personnel reached the spot and spoke to her before she jumped, the official said. The police managed to rescue the girl from the nullah, he said.

According to the Navi Mumbai police, the victim is ninth standard student and a resident in Taloja vicinity. On Sunday wee hours she had an oral dispute with her mother as her mother would scold her for studies. "Early morning the girl left home and went to a garden in the area. The family and friends found her in the garden and counselled her to go back home. Later again she was found standing at the flyover connecting Taloja Phase 1 and Phase 2. As crowd started gathering at the spot the girl panicked and jumped into the river. She was rescued by the local police who took her to a nearby hospital. After treatment she was sent back home," a Navi Mumbai police officer said.

The video of the complete incident were the girl is seen jumping into the river went viral on social media.

"We took the statement of the girl and her family members. But nothing came up in the investigation. Also the girl had no complaint against her family or any other person so no case was registered and she was allowed to go," a police officer from Taloja police station said.

Meanwhile, the Navi Mumbai Police nabbed a prime suspect and five others in connection with the gangster Sharad Mohol murder case which is being investigated by the Pune crime branch, an official said on Monday.

Acting on specific information, a team of Panvel City Police on Sunday evening nabbed some of the accused from the Panvel highway and others outside a dance bar in Vashi in Navi Mumbai, he said, adding that the six accused were handed over to the Pune crime branch.

The number of persons arrested in the case so far has risen to 14.

Pune Police had arrested eight persons, including prime suspect Sahil Polekar (20) and two lawyers, from a spot on the Pune-Satara highway along with firearms and live bullets.

"The persons nabbed by Navi Mumbai Police include the main suspect Ramdas Marne believed to be involved in the conspiracy and execution of Mohol's killing," the official said.

Mohol, a history-sheeter with cases of kidnapping, attempt to murder and murder registered against his name, was shot at by three persons near his house in Sutardara in the Kothrud area on January 5. He died hours later in a hospital from bullet wounds in the chest and shoulder.

Pune Police's crime branch was hot on the trail of the accused persons and received information that they were in Navi Mumbai, the official said.

The information was passed on to Navi Mumbai Police following which a trap was laid near Panvel highway.

"Police spotted vehicles of the accused by the highway and nabbed some of them while the rest were apprehended from outside a dance bar in Vashi," the official said.

Mohol (40) rose to fame after he and his aide were accused in the murder of suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui inside Yerawada jail here. He was later acquitted in the case.

As per police, Mohol, who hailed from a Mutha village in Mulshi tehsil, was associated with history-sheeter Sandip Mohol, who was killed by the rival Kishor Marne gang in 2006.

Sharad Mohol took the reins of the Mohol gang and avenged the murder of Sandip by killing Kishor Marne in October 2010. (With inputs from agencies)