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A deaf and mute woman's ailment astir a intersexual battle that took spot 16 years agone successful Mumbai has unmasked a serial predator, revealing a disturbing signifier of maltreatment and blackmail helium perpetrated connected respective women from the community.
The accused was arrested connected December 13 aft the subsister broke her soundlessness precocious pursuing the termination effort by 1 of the women helium allegedly sexually harassed.
Disturbed by the termination attempt, she confided successful her friends during a video telephone astir the battle that occurred successful 2009.
According to the police, the survivor, a nonmigratory of the occidental suburbs, communicated successful motion connection during a video telephone with her friends and colleagues, who were portion of a WhatsApp group, that the accused had drugged and raped her erstwhile she was a minor.
She besides took her hubby into confidence, and with enactment from Thane Deaf Association president Vaibhav Ghaisis, activistic Mohammed Farhan Khan, motion connection interpreter Madhu Keni, and a retired serviceman from the Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities Divyangjan, the subsister approached the police.
The survivor, her hubby and a fewer of her friends went to the Kurar constabulary station, wherever her connection was recorded successful camera, with Ms. Keni arsenic interpreter, and the accused, Mahesh Pawar, was arrested a fewer hours aboriginal from Virar, a suburb successful Palghar district.
Recalling the trauma she endured 16 years ago, the subsister said that a pistillate person had invited her to research the metropolis successful July 2009 and took her to Pawar's location successful Vakola, Santacruz, an authoritative said.
The accused allegedly offered her samosas and immoderate beverage to observe the pistillate friend's birthday. The subsister said she was forced to person the drink, which Pawar had allegedly spiked, and aft a while, her person near her unsocial with him.
The accused allegedly overpowered and raped her, and aboriginal blackmailed her with the recorded video of the assault.
The trauma of battle stayed with her implicit the years, and the attempted termination of different pistillate from the community, allegedly assaulted by Pawar, propelled her to travel forward.
A probe has revealed that the accused had likewise drugged and assaulted code and proceeding impaired women and threatened them into soundlessness by blackmailing them with obscene videos, a elder constabulary serviceman said.
The accused allegedly changeable obscene videos of respective women, utilizing which helium blackmailed them and extorted money, golden and mobile phones, helium said.
He allegedly forced women into participating successful nude video calls with him and recorded these to endanger them, the authoritative said.
"As per archetypal probe truthful far, we person grounds of his maltreatment of 7 women, but the fig tin summation to much than 24," the authoritative told PTI.
While Pawar has been remanded successful judicial custody, nary different pistillate has travel guardant with a ailment against him arsenic yet, helium said.
Talking to PTI, Ms. Keni said each women who person survived maltreatment and harassment by Pawar privation to lodge a ailment against him.
She claimed that the accused had extorted wealth from 1 of the women helium abused, but did not instrumentality the sum adjacent erstwhile she needed it for a aesculapian emergency.
