Bengaluru: Two months after the city police absolved the skating instructor of Vibgyor school in the complaint of rape of a six-year-old student, the specially designated court on Thursday granted bail to Mustafa (30), who was detained further in judicial custody by the police saying that Mustafa was directly not involved in the case. Soon after, a suo-motu case was registered against him by the police alleging that he was involved in child related crimes in a school in Whitefield.
The city police had arrested Mustafa on July 20 and booked him under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, based on circumstantial evidence. However during the course of investigations, the police stumbled upon the alleged involvement of Lal Giri and Waseem Pasha, gym instructors and arrested them.
Mustafa was dubbed by the police as a paedophile and the then police commissioner, Raghavendra H. Auradkar had told reporters that he could be involved in child pornography racket. The police had even doubted that he was using photos of his child victims for pornography.
Mustafa's parents claimed that their son was innocent. His laptop was taken away by the police a day before he was arrested and there are chances that the pornographic material could have been planted by the cops themselves, we do not know, alleged Murtaja, Mustafa's father.
Mustafa, a resident of Varthur, lived in a rented house with his wife and a five-year-old daughter, and his parents for about two years on Ramakrishnappa road near Om Shakthi. He hails from Darbhanga in Bihar and moved to the city 20 years ago. His parents who were fighting the case hope to get him out of jail latest by Saturday, after his advocate manages to secure a bail in the Whitefield case. "The court has granted the bail, but we have not seen our son yet. We expect to see him back home at least by Saturday," Murtaja told Deccan Chronicle.
