KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 22: In a sensational incident, a 50-year-old man was arrested for allegedly molesting a seven-year-old girl at densely-populated Bhalubasa locality under Sitaramdera thana area of the steel city late in Tuesday night.
Identified as Sanjay Kumar Singh, the arrested person is warder in Ghaghidih Central Jail.
The accused had lured the minor girl to move along with him from near her house in Teachers’ Colony in Bhalubasa to the rooftop of a triple-storeyed building late in the evening with an ulterior motive.
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Locals Spot the Crime and Intervene
As some local residents spotted the man entering the building premises with the girl, they suspected foul play, as the man was a stranger in the locality.
Soon after, the locals mobilised support and climbed on the building’s rooftop after making necessary queries from the occupants of the said building. On reaching the rooftop, they found the man molesting the girl.
At the sight of the inquisitive neighbours, the man tried to flee but was caught by the people and eventually thrashed squarely. By that time, a huge crowd had gathered outside the building with the accused still in the clutch of the frenzied people.
Police Intervention and Public Outrage
A police party arrived in the scene, but the people were so agitated that they thwarted the cops by resorting to stone-pelting. But later, a greater number of policemen reached there again and managed to rescue the accused from the clutches of the people.
The inquisitive residents wanted to know whether the accused was arrested or not, given his status as jail warder. The police had dropped the accused at his house instead of arresting him.
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Former CM’s Intervention Leads to Arrest
On discovering that the child molester was still at large, the people went over to the residence of former Chief Minister Raghubar Das, located about one kilometre away from the spot. It was after the intervention of Raghubar Das that the senior police officers, including the City SP Kumar Shivashish, took a statement of the victim’s parents and ordered the arrest of the accused.
OC Sitaramdera Thana said that the accused Sanjay Kumar Singh has been forwarded to judicial custody on Wednesday, and the girl has been sent to the MGM Medical College Hospital (MGMMCH) for a medical examination.
