A woman, who was reported to the Central police in Ulhasnagar by neighbours for allegedly assaulting her nine-year-old daughter with a knife, was discovered by cops to be an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant during interrogation. The incident happened on April 2 when the police received information that a woman had badly thrashed her own daughter and the girl had been admitted to Central hospital.

The police registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act and began to investigate the matter. “The neighbours of the child informed us that a mother regularly beat her with a rolling pin,” a police officer told mid-day. “While interrogating the mother we found out that she had crossed the border illegally and is a Bangladeshi national. We added the relevant sections of Juvenile Justice and Passport Act. The woman confessed that she had beaten the girl in a fit of rage,” said Sachin Gore, DCP, Zone 4.