MUMBAI: Mumbai police arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly drugging and raping multiple minor girls, filming the assaults, and later blackmailing them with the videos. The accused, Mahesh Ramesh Pawar, was apprehended from Virar, a distant Mumbai suburb, within six hours of receiving a complaint.Police officials from Kurar police station said to news agency PTI, the suspect is believed to have targeted between eight to ten minor girls so far.According to police investigations, Pawar would lure his victims by offering them soft drinks laced with sedative pills. Once unconscious, he would sexually assault them and record videos of the acts.The accused would then use these recorded videos to blackmail and repeatedly sexually exploit his victims, threatening to make the footage public.The swift action by Mumbai police led to Pawar’s arrest just hours after the first complaint was registered against him.The case highlights a disturbing pattern of premeditated attacks where the perpetrator used a combination of drugs, assault, and blackmail to victimize multiple minors in the Mumbai area.Police are continuing their investigation into the full extent of Pawar’s alleged crimes.
