Overview
- A court sent the ACP-rank suspect to judicial custody after Worli police booked him under the POCSO Act and Sections 74 and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code.
- The nine-year-old told her mother after the incident in a Worli public garden, and officers identified and arrested the suspect within hours of the complaint.
- Police say a minor boy has since reported a similar encounter about a week earlier, and investigators have opened a separate inquiry to verify his account.
- With no CCTV at Singh Garden, the case depends on witness statements and forensic work to corroborate what happened.
- Officials say the accused was posted to the DGP office’s Communication and IT wing and living at the Worli police camp, raising scrutiny of oversight of senior staff.