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Cricket coach held for molestation

Uday Mukund, a 44-year-old cricket coach, was arrested for the alleged abduction, wrongful confinement and attempts to sodomise a 13-year-old student.

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Uday Mukund, a 44-year-old cricket coach, was arrested on Friday for the alleged abduction, wrongful confinement and attempts to sodomise a 13-year-old student of Sundata High School, Grant Road.

The Marine Lines police registered a complaint filed by the boy’s father, Nathuram Bhau Joshi, 49, a resident of Tardeo, who said his son was lured away by Mukund with the promise of playing in a cricket tournament in Thane on July 19. The latter had been contracted by the school to coach students.

While deputy commissioner Brijesh Singh said a complaint has been registered, an officer of the Marine Lines police told DNA: “Preliminary investigations revealed the minor was taken by his coach first to a small tenement in South Mumbai’s Chira Bazaar.

This has been corroborated by a local Chinese stall owner who remembers seeing the child. Thereafter, the accused took the boy to a Thane hotel, and later to a lodge in Dadar where he allegedly tried to molest him. He later dropped the boy off in the Maratha Mandir area on July 20.”

Ranjona Joshi, the boy’s mother, said: “On July 19, I came home and was told my son had gone to play a match in Thane with the coach. When I called the coach on his mobile, he said my son and other members of the team were having dinner, but did not let me speak to him.”

According to Joshi, the boy returned home the next day, deeply disturbed. “It was after much persuasion he told us Mukund tried to molest him.

My son remembers the coach spraying something on him, after which he became unconscious.” Nathuram added on July 20, when they approached the school’s physical training teacher, they were asked to wait for a few days while the school talked to the coach.

“The teacher deliberately delayed us so that medical tests could not immediately be carried out on my son. We initially registered a case with the Tardeo police who asked us to register the complaint with the Marine Lines police instead, which we did. The officers questioned my son, taking him to the various spots mentioned in the statement to verify facts.”

Mukund has been charged under sections 367 (kidnapping in order to subject a person to the unnatural lust of any person), 363 (kidnapping a minor) and 341 (wrongful restraint) of the IPC.

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