Overview
- A 45-year-old co-worker, arrested within hours of the Monday night assault in Naupada, was remanded to police custody until Friday after a court hearing on Tuesday.
- Police registered charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s sections 64(1) and 65(2) and under the child-protection law known as POCSO, and the girl is being treated at the civil hospital.
- Investigators formed three teams and intercepted the suspect before he could leave Thane, and police say he had arrived from Bihar two days earlier.
- The child’s family lives in temporary housing at the same site where they work, and police say the attack happened while her father was on shift and her mother was away in their native village.
- Political figures from MNS, BJP, and Shiv Sena (UBT) urged compulsory registration and ID checks for migrant labor at construction sites, with one BJP corporator calling for the death penalty for the accused.