‘Suspended’ rape accused still in office

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: ACP Anil Mahabole, charged with rape, has not received any suspension order despite the home minister’s announcement that he stood suspended.
 

    “I have not received any such order,” said Mahabole, sitting in his chamber at the local arms unit’s Naigaon office. The victim, a 38-year-old woman residing in Kurla, has alleged that Mahabole raped her after offering her sweets laced with sedatives. She further alleged that Mahabole shot a video of her and used it to blackmail her.
 

    “I have submitted my mobile to the crime branch and given my statement,” said Mahabole.Home minister R R Patil had announced that the ACP was suspended.
 

    Mahabole said, “In July 2010, I was posted as ACP in the control room at police headquarters when the woman came to meet the then police commissioner and the joint commissioner of police (law and order). On their instructions, she met me and alleged that a senior inspector of a police station was sexually harassing her. The officer was subjected to an inquiry. Later, she came to thank me several times,” said Mahabole.
 

    “Later, she began sending me text messages. I spoke to her husband and she started sending more messages,” said Mahabole. He said she was being instigated by a senior inspector and a retired ACP.
 

 

ACP ANIL MAHABOLE’S CASE FILE
• Was part of the team probing Telgi fake stamp paper scam

• His team nabbed Chhota Shakeel’s girlfriend Rubina Sayyed

• Supervised a probe into allegations that Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar had invested in Sara-Sahara complex

• Supervised probe into deportation of 10 Dawood gang members from the UAE

• Was transferred while probing an extortion case against Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar

• In 2005, probed the case where constable Sunil More raped a college student inside a police chowkie 

 

 

The Times of India, May 8, 2012