Overview

• Mumbai police registered the case at Bhoiwada station under BNS sections 74, 352 and 351(2) plus Section 8 of the POCSO Act
• The accused is alleged to have molested a fellow doctor’s wife and their two daughters, aged 15 and 9, while abusing and threatening their husband
• Although the alleged abuse occurred in 2015, authorities only filed the FIR this month after verifying a written complaint
• The complainant’s husband, a KEM Hospital professor, was suspended last month after six women doctors accused him of sexual harassment
• No arrests have been made so far as investigators record statements and probe the intertwined professional conflicts