In a horrific incident, the Thane Police arrested 35-year-old Vishal Gawli and his 25-year-old wife Sakshi Gawli for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Kalyan. According to the Thane Police, the unnamed 13-year-old girl went missing on Monday, 23rd December 2024. She had left her house around 4:30 pm to buy some food items but did not return. When the girl didn’t return till 7 pm, the parents started looking for her. When they couldn’t find the girl till 11 pm, they filed a kidnapping complaint at the local Kolsewadi police station. The family told the police that a man had molested their daughter in December 2023. Therefore, they suspected that man to have kidnapped their daughter but the police soon realised that he wasn’t involved. They started searching for the missing girl.
On 24th December 2024, the police found the body of a girl resembling the missing girl in the deserted area of Bapgaon, Bhiwandi. They called the missing girl’s family, who identified her. The Thane Police then sent the girl’s body for postmortem which revealed that she was brutally raped before being killed. Seeing the intensity of the crime, the Thane Police formed 8 teams to investigate the case. Initial investigation and several CCTV footage led Thane Police to Vishal. Allegedly, Vishal had kidnapped the girl from near her house on 23rd December and took her to his house, where he raped and then murdered her.
After killing the innocent girl, Vishal called Sakshi, who was in the bank at the time and threatened to leave her if she didn’t support & help him in getting rid of the body. Sakshi rushed home. She helped Vishal in packing the girl’s dead body in a bag and putting it in a rickshaw. The couple then took the bag to a deserted area of the Bapgaon, Bhiwandi and dumped the body there. One of the CCTV footage showed Vishal buying alcohol at a restaurant in Bapgaon after dumping the body. The Thane Police first located and arrested Sakshi. This led to Vishal fleeing to Buldhana.
On 25th December 2024, the Thane Police caught and arrested Vishal too, with the help of the Buldhana Police from a local salon, where he was trying to change his look to avoid being identified and arrested. According to the reports, the victim shared a good relationship with Sakshi but her family found Vishal’s behaviour weird. Therefore, because of it and her molestation in December 2023, the victim’s parents used to forbid her from visiting Vishal & Sakshi’s house. However, the victim continued to visit the couple’s house occasionally. The Thane Police also revealed that Vishal is a habitual offender. He is involved in 6 cases of which 3 cases are of sexual assault on 2 women earlier and 1 minor girl in August 2023. He was out on bail. He had married 3 times, and Sakshi was his 3rd wife.
The Thane Police are still investigating how Vishal took the victim to his house when Sakshi was away. They suspect that he killed the 13-year-old girl fearing that she would tell people about the sexual assault. The police have also seized the rickshaw used to dump the victim’s body and are checking if the rickshaw driver was involved in the crime as an accomplice. Angry with the incident, several public representatives, many social organisations and citizens of Thane held several rallies wearing black ribbons on their arms, especially outside the Kolsewadi police station demanding that Vishal be hanged for his alleged heinous crime under the leadership of former Shiv Sena functionary Mahesh. Kalyan Lok Sabha MP & son of deputy CM Eknath Shinde, Shrikant Shinde met the victim’s parents and assured them that the government will try their best to ensure that Vishal gets the death penalty.
In another rape incident, a 35-year-old man named Shailesh Rathod, who was out on bail for raping a 72-year-old woman, raped the same old woman twice again in Bharuch, Gujarat. According to the reports, he had raped the old lady for the first time in June 2023 and was then jailed after the old woman filed a case against him.
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