Minor’s gangrape: 2 cops suspended over delay in FIR

The other three suspects,all minors,were arrested from Sakinaka nearly 10 days after the crime.

Written by: Express News Service

2 min readMumbaiNov 18, 2013 01:17 AM IST First published on: Nov 18, 2013 at 01:17 AM IST

Two officers of Dindoshi police station were suspended Monday after a departmental inquiry into delay in filing an FIR when a 16-year-old gangrape victim approached them to file a complaint on November 2. JCP (law and order) Sadanand Date said the Mumbai police commissioner had suspended sub-inspector D Dashime and inspector Bharat Gaikwad for negligence.

Dindoshi police said on November 1,two of the six suspects in the case called the victim to MHADA bridge to celebrate Diwali and four of them took turns to rape her. Dindoshi police registered an FIR only on November 3,based on which three suspects — Wasim Hafeez Sayyed (23),Surya Selvan Pillai (19) and Kalwa Badolal Vishwakarma (19) — were arrested on November 5. The other three suspects,all minors,were arrested from Sakinaka nearly 10 days after the crime.