NAVI MUMBAI: NRI Coastal Police on Friday registered an FIR against the priest of a Christian sect for alleged sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl accommodated ‘illegally’ at the orphange run by the sect.
Senior inspector Ravindra Patil said, “Acting on a complaint by Pallavi Jadhav, an official of Thane District Child Protection Cell, alleging that the priest of the sect was repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor at the orphanage, we recorded the victim’s statement in her presence and booked the accused under section 8 of the Pocso Act.”
