MUMBAI: Man In Mumbai raped 5 girls for 3 years and then pushed them into flesh trade, arrested: Police. A man of age 50-year-old from Chembur in eastern Mumbai was arrested on Tuesday evening after a teenage girl rescued in 2019 recently spoke about a shocking incident about how she and her sisters were repeatedly raped by the man.
Firoz Khan has been arrested, said Krishnakant Upadhyay, deputy commissioner of police, zone 6.
Senior inspector of RCF police station Balasaheb Ghavate said Khan was arrested from the Chembur area on Tuesday night. “We will produce him before a special POCSO court on Wednesday to seek his remand for custodial interrogation,” he said.
The alleged assaults took place in the Ashok Nagar and Indira Nagar areas of Chembur between 2018 and 2021.
According to the girl’s statement, Firoz Khan allegedly sexually assaulted the girls after sedating their drinks and often forced them to drink beer. He also filmed the sexual assault and sent the video clips to his friends.
The minor girls told child care officers that the accused forced them to watch porn and then sexually abused them. He also forced the girls into flesh trade by sending them to his friends’ places for sexual acts in exchange for money, the officer said.
