14 July,2016 08:34 AM IST | | Sailee Dhayalkar
The pervert stopped next to an auto with two teens at a signal in Khar and started masturbating; a click and a tweet to Mumbai Police later, he was cooling his heels in the lock up
Two girls travelling by auto rickshaw in Khar had the shock of their lives when they saw the biker next to them brazenly jerking off to them in broad daylight.
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The girls clicked this picture and sent it to the Twitter ID @MumbaiPolice
Repulsive as the sight was, the quick-thinking girls quickly took a picture of the pervert and it was tweeted to Mumbai Police's Twitter handle. It was thanks to this that the man was arrested within three hours.
The pervert was identified as Rais Likayat Qureshi; the picture on the top leaves no doubt as to what he was doing
According to the Khar police, the incident occurred on Tuesday evening, when the girls were in an auto, waiting at the signal at 16th road, Khar West. The pervert - identified as 35-year-old Rais Likayat Qureshi, a resident of Bandra - was at the same signal on his black Yamaha bike. Upon spotting the girls, he caught up to their auto and openly began to masturbate. The girls panicked but didn't lose their head; they clicked a picture of him in the act and circulated it among their friends, who then uploaded it on Twitter.
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Along with the picture, the friend tweeted - "@MumbaiPolice friends were in a rickshaw & a man starting shagging looking at them what action can be taken on this?"
The picture leaves no doubt as to what he was doing; cool as a cucumber, Qureshi had a cigarette between his lips, one hand on the bike and the other on his crotch. Perhaps that is why the police jumped into action immediately upon seeing the image, even before they received an official complaint from the girls.
"Looking at the girls, the accused flashed his private parts and began masturbating on the moving bike. The teenage girls were horrified, but did the smartest thing by clicking his photographs and catching him in the act," said an officer from Khar police station.
This was a rare incident when the cops took suo motu action in the case, and registered an offence even before taking the statements of the victims. In no time, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone IX) Satyanarayan Chaudhary was informed about it and he set about hunting for the accused to initiate appropriate action against him. Thankfully, the girls had also taken down the number of the bike driven by the accused. One team of cops was asked to get the biker's information and address from the RTO, while the second team was asked to browse CCTV footage of the route taken by him.
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DCP Chaudhary said, "After checking the CCTV footage, we had a vague idea of where he was staying. His photograph was then shown to the beat officers and other staff in the team. Luckily, some of them identified Qureshi and we arrested him."
The pervert, who is single, lives with his parents at Varda Road in Bandra. He earns his living by selling perfumes and expensive watches. He was booked under Section 354 (outraging woman's modesty) of IPC and was presented at Bandra Metropolitan magistrate court yesterday, after which he was sent to judicial custody till July 26.
