Angry over not being served dosa first, Mumbai man abuses woman, minor daughter; booked under Pocso

According to the 36-year-old homemaker’s complaint, she went to a local dosa vendor near Centrium Mall on Tuesday evening with her daughter. Some customers were eating dosa at the stall. The woman said she placed an order for a parcel. A few minutes later, when the vendor handed over her parcel, the accused, who was waiting for his dosa to be served, got angry, she said.

Using a derogatory term against the woman, he allegedly asked the vendor if he had intentionally served the woman first. “On this indecent comment, when the woman confronted him, asking him, ‘Don’t you have a mother or sister?’, he started abusing her and her daughter and used obscene language for them as well,” a police officer said.

When the woman’s brother-in-law reached the spot, the accused and his friend assaulted, threatened, and abused him, the officer added. When people started gathering at the scene, the accused and his friend escaped, the police said.
A criminal case was lodged against the two men under several sections of the IPC and sections 11 and 12 of the Pocso Act.