Mumbai : Armed with only an unclear CCTV footage and tidbits of information from people living in the vicinity about the accused in rape case of a five-year-old, the Kandivali police is still on the lookout for him.
Though the police have identified the accused based on the information extracted from people who know him and CCTV footage which shows him taking the child away, they have refused to divulge his name.
“It has been established that he lives in Kandivali, but doesn’t have a permanent residence or a job. Just like the survivour’s family he also kept moving and used to live on the streets. So there’s no way to zero down on a particular spot,” said the ACP of Malwani division, Ramesh Lohkare.
Four teams have been formed to locate the accused. They are also trying to determine other traits of his personality such as drug or alcohol addiction.
Meanwhile at the Nair hospital, the survivour is currently recuperating after surgeries performed on her. Her treatment took place at hospital’s pediatric depart-ment. The hospital would be taking care of all medical expenses and future counse-lling requirements of the sur-vivour and her family.
Dean of Nair hospital, Dr. Ramesh Bharmal, said “The patient is currently stable and the hospital will take care of her and her family. As we are a BMC hospital it is our duty to take care of people who cannot afford proper medical treatment.”
Bharmal did not wish to divulge the nature of injuries sustained by the victim. “The victim is a young child and gruesome details of the case being out in the open won’t be fair to her,” he said.
The rape took place between 3 to 5 am on Thursday when the accused took the child away from where she was sleeping with her mother and four-year-old brother at a footpath in Saibaba Nagar, Kandivali, west. The child was first taken to Shatabdi hospital nearby and then to Nair hospital in Bombay Central.
