Mumbai Police commissioner Hemant Nagrale has said that his force is probing if Mohan Chauhan, the Sakinaka rape accused, has a criminal record in his home state Uttar Pradesh.
Nagrale also said that no offences have been registered against the accused in the state of Maharashtra and hence the search has been extended to his home state.
Mohan Chauhan hailed from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, worked as a driver and lived on the pavement in the same area. He was arrested for raping and brutalizing a 32-year-old woman in a tempo parked in Mumbai’s Sakinaka on September 10.
The victim succumbed to her injuries on September 11 while undergoing treatment at a government hospital.
Mumbai Police had come under intense scrutiny after the incident, following which Nagrale defended police actions, and insisted that it is impossible for cops to be present everywhere.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday announced a compensation of ₹10 lakh for the family of the brutal rape assault victim from Mumbai’s Sakinaka area.