An embroidery worker has been arrested by the JJ Marg police for allegedly raping three minor children staying in his neighbourhood. The mother of the victims approached the police after her seven-year-old daughter narrated the ordeal to her. South region’s Additional Commissioner of Police Dilip Sawant assured a swift probe and demand for maximum punishment in a fast-track court. 

According to police, the incident occurred on February 26, between 9 pm and 10 pm, when the 43-year-old embroidery worker living in the jurisdiction of JJ Marg police took the three girls, aged four, five and seven years, to his house on the pretext of giving them food and then sexually assaulted them. As per the FIR registered by the police, the accused touched the children inappropriately and kissed them on their lips.