Duncan Grant, 67, and Allan Waters, 63, were arrested from Mahatma Phule Nagar slum in Cuffe Parade of South Mumbai, senior inspector at Colaba police station Vinod Sawant said.
Two British nationals, who had been convicted in 2006 on charges of sexual abuse of minor children living in shelters run by them in Mumbai, were today arrested after the Supreme Court set aside their acquittal by the Bombay high court.
Duncan Grant, 67, and Allan Waters, 63, were arrested from Mahatma Phule Nagar slum in Cuffe Parade of South Mumbai, senior inspector at Colaba police station Vinod Sawant said.
After conducting medical test on the duo at GT hospital, police produced them before a Sessions Court where the two said that police had taken them into custody, though they themselves wanted to surrender.
"Police prevented us from surrendering before the court and they arrested us", Grant said in the court. However, the court said they could contest it at the proper forum.
As soon as they were brought to the court, judge DR Shirsao said, "You are already informed why you are arrested, you will have to undergo the remaining jail term and the warrant is also issued."
Their advocate Taraq Sayyed also moved an application in the court contending that Grant and Waters were arrested even before they could surrender. " They would first be taken to Arthur Road jail and from there they would be shifted to another jail in three to four days," added Sayyed.
Besides ordering the duo to serve their remaining jail terms, the Supreme Court had on Friday also directed recovery of damages and fines imposed on them by a sessions court on March 18, 2006.
The trial court had ordered the Britishers to pay a compensation of 20,000 UK pounds each while also imposing fine of Rs 15,000 on William D'souza, the Indian manager at the shelters-for-homeless run by the convicts at three places in Mumbai.
Waters and Grant were sentenced to six years each. While Waters has undergone five years imprisonment, Grant has served three years and two months. D'Souza has served a month longer in jail than the term of three years imposed upon him.
The apex court had last Friday restored the conviction on appeals by civil society Childline India Foundation and Maharashtra government, challenging the order of Bombay high court which had freed them in July 2008.
"Children are the greatest gift to humanity. The sexual abuse of children is one of the most heinous crimes. It is an appalling violation of their trust, an ugly breach of our commitment to protect the innocent," the apex court said while restoring their conviction.
A case against the trio was registered in November 2001 on the intervention of the civil society on the basis of statements of the two victims at the Anchorage Shelter Home in Colaba run by the Britishers.
However, the duo had left the country when the case was registered against them. While Waters was arrested in USA in pursuance of an Interpol notice against him and brought to India, Grant surrendered before an Indian court in 2002.
The high court had set aside their conviction imposed by sessions court, saying none of the other children living in the shelter Anchorage, run by the two, had corroborated the two victims' depositions of their sexual abuse.
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