The editor of a Marathi weekly, who was absconding after allegedly molesting his minor niece, has been arrested, a senior police official said here on Friday. The accused, who was arrested on Friday, is the editor of Maanpatra, a Marathi weekly published from Parli Vaijnath.
“We have arrested the accused and registered a case against him under Section 354 (a) of the IPC,” Parli Town’s senior police inspector Hanumant Gaikwad told PTI.
The accused, 48-year-old Balasaheb Sopanrao Jagatkar, allegedly molested his 17-year-old niece on Wednesday evening, Gaikwad said.
Reportedly, Jagatkar had asked his niece, who lives nearby, to fetch him some drinking water and when she entered his house with a glass of water, he allegedly molested her. However, she managed to escape, Gaikwad said.
–PTI