Overview
- The assistant sub-inspector, attached to the Local Arms (L Division-2), was arrested after locals intervened in an alleged molestation of an 18-year-old differently-abled woman at Bhausaheb Hire Garden near the Tardeo RTO on Monday evening.
- Videos from bystanders showing the uniformed officer being taken to the station circulated widely on social media after residents restrained him and handed him over.
- An FIR was registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including sections 74 for using criminal force to outrage modesty and 75(2) for misbehaviour, and the court remanded the officer to police custody until December 26.
- Police have denied that the officer was under the influence of alcohol, though a medical examination was conducted and results are awaited; reports conflict on whether he was on duty at the time.
- In a separate case, two men — Irfan Iqbal Shaikh and Abbas Mohammed Ali Khan — were arrested for allegedly assaulting, threatening, and wrongfully confining ASI Sanjay Rane, with BNS sections invoked for obstructing a public servant, wrongful confinement, causing hurt, intentional insult, and criminal intimidation.