Overview
- Police opened a case on May 1 after the wife’s mother and grandmother filed a complaint at Morbi City A Division station under child-protection (POCSO) and the new BNS criminal code.
- The tenant husband was arrested earlier, and the 55-year-old landlord, produced in court Thursday, moved from a day of police remand to judicial custody.
- Investigators completed the scene documentation known as a panchnama, ran medical exams on the victims and accused, and said they gathered scientific evidence.
- Officers are searching for a relative of the landlord and other alleged helpers who, police say, are absconding.
- The family had moved from Surendranagar to Morbi about six months ago, rented a room for Rs 2,000, fell several months behind, and the assaults were alleged at the rented home, the landlord’s house, and in Tankara.