The victim stated that an unidentified man who had seen her returning home entered her house during the first week of July while she was sleeping and sexually assaulted her. Frightened by the incident, she did not immediately tell anyone

In an editorial published in the party's mouthpiece Saamana, the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction claimed that Maharashtra, which it said was once considered relatively safe for women, had now slipped to second place nationally in crimes against women