Navi Mumbai crime: Man booked for stalking 14-year-old girl in Rabale

The police on Friday said that a case has been registered against a man for allegedly stalking and verbally abusing a 14yearold girl in Navi Mumbai reported news agency PTIThe girl was on her way to school in Rabale for a flag hoisting ceremony on Thursday morning when the accused accosted her in his car an official said reported PTIThe accused asked the girl to get into the vehicle and when she refused he verbally abused her The girl picked up a stone to hurl at the man following which he fled he said reported PTIA case was registered under sections 78 stalking and 79 word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act the official saidIn another case police have registered a case against a 21yearold man from Maharashtras Palghar district for allegedly repeatedly raping a 17yearold girl from Thane city an official said on Friday reported PTIThe case came to light after the teenager who became pregnant following the alleged sexual assault delivered a baby at the Thane Civil Hospital on August 12 he said reported PTIAfter being alerted by the hospital authorities the Kasarwadavli police registered a case against the man under the Indian Penal Code IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act on Tuesday he said reported PTIThe accused is a tribal from Malwada near Vikramgad in Palghar district He allegedly sexually assaulted the teenager after she refused to marry him the official said quoting the complaintMeanwhile the body of a 25yearold woman has been found hanging at a room in a chawl in Thane city of Maharashtra officials said on Wednesday reported PTIPrima facie it is a case of suicide Kopri police stations senior inspector Ranjeet Dere saidAn official from Kopri fire station said they received a call at around 10 pm on Monday from some occupants of the chawl row tenement located at Koliwada in Thane East about foul smell emanating from a locked house there reported PTIFire personnel rushed to the spot cut open the house lock and found a woman who was unmarried hanging from an iron bar in a room he said adding the deceased was a tenant at the chawl reported PTIAfter being alerted the Kopri police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortemThe police on Tuesday registered a case of accidental death and were conducting a probe into itWith inputs from PTI