Mumbai, Mar 29 (TOI): After questioning nearly 100 autorickshaw drivers, the police on Thursday tracked down a man accused of sexually abusing a child in Andheri (east). The suspect, Mukesh Yadav, was asleep inside an autorickshaw near Pinky Cinema when he was caught.
The police said the five-year-old victim from Andheri was playing on Tuesday night when Yadav lured her with the offer of ice-cream. The police said Yadav took the child into the bushes across a drain at Goni Nagar and sexually assaulted her. The police said the girl screamed and some men arrived and grabbed a fleeing Yadav, but he slipped away.
The residents had had a good look at him and told investigators that the suspect was hunchbacked with thinning hair and very few teeth. An informant said he slept in autorickshaws. Yadav, a watchman at an Andheri (east) society, lived in Nalasopara.