Over 20 boys say Abdul Rashid Sheikh repeatedly raped them for four years. The man still roams free. Meet Mumbai's newest...
Married dad of four, Abdul Rashid Sheikh allegedly sexually abused over 20 young boys repeatedly and then secured their secrecy by threatening them with physical harm.
Sheikh allegedly knew all the victims and, in fact, in some of the cases, Sheikh and the boys' parents were family friends.
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Traumatic: Atif Sheikh, 16, said he was raped seven times over a period of four months and was forced to watch porn films |
Afroz Rehman (name changed) who was allegedly abused when he was 16, said, "Uncle ruined my life.
I was too shocked to come to terms with what had happened to me, but I knew it was terribly wrong.
But I did not have the courage to tell anyone. I hope he stays in jail forever."
Porn CD
Afroz said he was first shown a porn CD and then raped, repeatedly.
Yet, Sheikh has not been arrested. Senior police inspector at the Vakola police station, Anil Kharade said, "We have registered the complaint, but have not yet arrested him because we are awaiting concrete evidence.
Only a few boys have come forward and recorded their statement, and that is not enough."
Despite requests by the desperate parents the Vakola police only registered an FIR under section 373 of the IPC (buying minors for purposes of prostitution) and section 377 (unnatural sex).
However, IPS officer-turned-lawyer Y P Singh said the man should have been arrested.
"If the children have come forward and a complaint has been filed, the police should have arrested him immediately. They have enough grounds to arrest him."
When told that the police wanted more evidence, he said, "The statements of the boys are evidence.
Forensic tests need to be conducted at his home where the incidents took place and physical evidence like the porn CDs need to be confiscated immediately."
Teacher held for sexual abuse of students
PUNE: The Alandi police on Friday arrested a 24-year-old teacher at an ashram near Alandi for alleged sexual abuse of his students for the last
two months.
The police have identified the suspect as Vighneshwar Patil of Jalgaon. The incident came into light when a 14-year-old student disclosed the incident to his parents, said inspector Ratansinh Rajput.
"We have booked Patil under section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code. The suspect had sexually abused five other students also from the ashram," Rajput said.
Rajput said that, according the complaint, the suspect used to call the students to his room and, on the pretext of massaging his hands and legs, used to sodomise them.
"There are 16 boys studying at the ashram. The suspect had abused five of them in the last two months. We are investigating whether other students have also been abused," Rajput said.
Delhi man who raped teen in Germany 12 yrs ago held
NEW DELHI: Law-keepers finally arrested a man who allegedly fled from Germany after raping a teenager there 12 years ago. Jaswant Singh (36) was
arrested by the crime branch of Delhi Police after German authorities approached them last year through the ministry of external affairs. Singh reportedly runs a transport company in north Delhi.
Singh was arrested from his residence in northwest Delhi's Adarsh Nagar on Sunday night. He had allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl in a park in Germany's Darmstadt on the night of August 1, 1997, along with two friends. The accused will be tried in New Delhi as Berlin has not sought his extradition.
The arrest follows "painstaking'' investigations for over eight months after Germany approached New Delhi last year. Singh, who hails from Miani in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, allegedly dragged the girl, who was walking home after missing a train, into a park and raped her. "He slapped her when she resisted and then raped her. His two friends Karan Singh and Mohd Shahzad, a Pakistani national also raped her,'' said DCP (crime and railways) Neeraj Thakur.
Singh, who was illegally staying in Germany, left for Holland soon after his two friends were arrested and then reached Delhi. The involvement of Singh and two others came to light when the owner of `Le Petit' restaurant, where he was working as a chef, overheard two workers talking about the incident and informed police about it.
Following the tip-off, two of the accused were arrested by the German police on August 5, 1997 while Singh managed to escape. A German court sentenced Shahzad to eight years imprisonment, while Karan was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. The victim had identified the two in court while she identified Singh through his photographs.
Singh had gone to Germany in 1992 and had sought political asylum, which was later rejected. However, he continued to stay there illegally. "Since he had been living in Germany since 1992 as an illegal immigrant on fake identities, German authorities were unable to get much information about him except his name,'' Thakur added.
The German embassy forwarded copies of the case record to MEA in 2008 with a request to initiate criminal proceedings against Singh. "We had a name and a place of birth. Information regarding persons with similar names and description who had arrived from Germany over the past few years were gathered. Sources were deployed and persons engaged in facilitating immigration were also tapped,'' said a senior police officer.
"Singh never expected to be caught after 12 years for a crime he committed in another country,'' added the officer. Singh got married in 2000 and has two children. He had been booked under Section 376 (2) (G) (gangrape), Section 377 (unnatural offences) and Section 341 (wrongful restraint) of Indian Penal Code. IPC Section 4 (trial of a person committing crime in any part of the world) has also been invoked against him.
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