The Bombay High Court has taken a suo motu cognizance of the violent protests over the sexual assault of two kindergarten students in Badlapur area in Maharashtra’s Thane district.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan will be hearing the matter on Thursday, Live Law reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, a local court extended till August 26 the police custody of the man arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two girls at a school in Badlapur town in Thane district.
The accused, an attendant at the school, was produced before a magistrate at Kalyan in Thane district amid elaborate security arrangements.
Internet services at Badlapur in Maharashtra’s Thane district were suspended on Wednesday a day after a massive protest over alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls. As many as 72 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence during the stir, officials said.
At least 17 city police personnel and around eight railway cops were injured in the incidents of stone-pelting at the railway station and other parts of Badlapur during the protest on Tuesday, they said.
Police have been deployed in large numbers across Badlapur to maintain law and order, and the situation in the town is back to normal.
Entire Badlapur town virtually came to a standstill on Tuesday after thousands of protesters blocked railway tracks at the station and stormed the school building, where sexual abuse of two girls by the school sweeper took place last week.
The protesters hurled stones at police personnel and vandalised the school building during the protest. The police cane-charged the protesters to disperse them and clear the tracks for train movement.
Commissioner of Government Railway Police (GRP) Ravindra Shisve said one FIR has been registered in connection with the violence at Badlapur railway station and 32 persons have been arrested.
“Seven to eight railway police personnel, including officials, were injured in the stone-pelting,” he said.
“The situation is normal and under control today,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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