After a nine-year-old student was molested on the municipal school premises on Thursday, activists have slammed the idea of setting up Aadhaar card centres in BMC institutes.
After a nine-year-old student was molested on the municipal school premises on Thursday, activists have slammed the idea of setting up Aadhaar card centres in BMC institutes.
Even as councillors and activists are demanding the immediate closure of the UID centres in civic schools, the BMC has refused to do so. Instead, the municipal corporation plans to beef up security at registration units at schools.
The police said they suspected that the accused had entered the school under the pretext of registering for Aadhaar card.
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Girl can’t recall attacker’s face
The police have not been able to draw a sketch of the accused, who had allegedly molested a nine-year-old BMC school student at Shivaji Nagar on Thursday. “The scared girl cannot recollect the molester’s face,” said Radheshyam Agarwal, senior police inspector of Shivaji Nagar police station.
He said that a number of people had been entering the school in the past few days as its ground floor was served as a centre of enrollment for Aadhar cards. The molester must have been one of them, said the officer.Patrolling by plain clothes policemen has been intensified around schools and play grounds at Shivaji Nagar area to prevent molestation, sexual harassment, eve-teasing and other crimes, said Agarwal.
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There are 101 Aadhaar centres with 222 kits allowed at municipal properties with most of them being schools. At least 10 more centres are likely to be added to the list over the coming week, said civic officials.
“We have Aadhaar centres in Shivaji Nagar school number 2 and one in Rafi Nagar,” said Rais Shaikh, councillor from Govandi and Samajwadi Party (SP) group leader.
“ A month ago, we took out a massive rally to the police station led by MLA Abu Asim Azmi on the deteriorating law and order situation here. We demanded strong police action and patrolling near schools, bus stops and rickshaw stands which the police had promised, but never implemented,” he added.
Makrand Narwekar, an independent councillor from south Mumbai, alleged loopholes in security arrangements at the biggest BMC school in south Mumbai, near the Colaba fire station.
“The school has over 3,000 students but has only one security guard. Now with Aadhaar applicants lining up here, keeping a tight vigil with one guard is impossible,” he said, demanding UID centres be opened at private properties.
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