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Thane: Police personnel talk to people blocking the railway tracks to protest against the alleged sexual abuse of two girls at a school at Bhadrapur railway station in Thane district on Tuesday, August 20, 2024.
The protest took place after a school cleaner sexually assaulted two four-year-old girls in the washroom of a prominent school in Bhadrapur.
There were dramatic scenes in Maharashtra as thousands of protesters descended on the local railway station in Bhadrapur and blocked trains. The protests took place against the backdrop of two four-year-old girls being sexually assaulted by a school cleaner in the washroom of a prominent school in Bhadrapur.
According to the video shared ani news agencyprotesters can be seen shouting “hi hi” slogan against the police and called for the death penalty for the sweepers suspected of being involved in the attack.
In response to calls for a lockdown in Badlapur city, police resorted to lathi charges to disperse protesters who had gathered at Badlapur railway station to protest against the alleged sexual assault of two kindergarten girls.
Sweeper detained for sexually abusing 4-year-old girl
The accused Akshay Shinde was arrested and although the police initially tried to downplay the issue by delaying the filing of the FIR for more than 12 hours, the parents persisted in filing a formal complaint. The defendant worked as a cleaner at a school contracted through a third-party company.
Responding to the sluggish police action, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday ordered the Thane police chief to immediately suspend the senior inspector, assistant sub-inspector and head constable of Bhadrapur police station.
