Man Checks out Aˆ?dirtyaˆ™ Clip, Finds Daughter in It

Times of India
January 11, 2013

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-11/mumbai/36280499_1_mms-clip-minor-girls-sexual-abuse

MUMBAI: A middle-aged man who agreed to watch a 'dirty' MMS clip on his friend's phone got the shock of his life when he saw it was a recording of the molestation and sexual abuse of his 13-year-old daughter. After confirming the incident with her, he and his neighbours caught the perpetrator, a 70-year-old dargah priest, thrashed him and handed him over to the local police.

Niyad Ahmed Hasan Ansari , sadar of a dargah in Govandi , was arrested on Thursday and his phone, which he used to make the MMS, was seized. As the news spread, two more minor girls and their parents came forward against Ansari and were made witnesses in the case.

"The two minor girls, too, are his victims. The accused had dismissed the teachers who used to come to the dargah to teach students Arabic. After sacking them, he started taking the classes and on this pretext, he sexually abused the minor girls," said the police source.

The trauma of the 13-year-old , the youngest of five daughters of a 50-year-old scrap dealer in the Baiganwadi locality of Govandi, began after she enrolled for the Arabic classes. "The masjid sadar used to make me wait after classes got over. He misbehaved with me and warned me that if I narrated the incident to my parents, he would make the MMS public. Fearing stigma, I decided not to complain to my parents and attended the class," she told the police. She has been sent of medical examination.

"Ansari had recorded on his mobile the oral and unnatural sex and the sexual abuse he had committed on the minor girl a month ago. Later , he circulated the clip to some of his acquaintances," said Shivaji Nagar senior inspector R S Agarwal.

On Wednesday evening, the victim's father's friend got the MMS clip from some youths of the locality after hearing that such a video was circulating. Later, he showed it to the man.

"My friend did not know that the girl in the clip is my daughter. He said when he heard about the clip circulating in the neighbourhood, he approached an acquaintance and got the clip transferred to his cellphone. Then he showed it to me," said the victim's father. "My daughter broke down when I asked about the incident and told me that she had kept quiet fearing the consequences she would have to face."

After going through the clip, the victim's father and locals from Baiganwadi confronted the elderly priest, thrashed him and handed him over to the police. "Enraged with the act, we managed to track down the accused. He had sexually abused the victim some 3-4 times in a month. There was political pressure on the police to slap simple charges on the accused ," said the man's friend who showed him the clip.

Ansari has been booked under sections 376 (rape) 294 (obscene acts), 354 (outraging modesty), 377 (unnatural offences) and 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) and remanded in police custody till January 17. His cellphone, used to make the clip, will be sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Kalina and its report will be used as evidence.