Suburb erupts over assault of 2 minors aged 4

Irate Badlapur residents, seething over the news of the molestation of two children - both aged four - by an employee at a preschool, spilled out on the streets and railway tracks on Tuesday, bringing the MMR suburb to a halt and disrupting suburban train services for several hours.

- Narendra Gupta, Musab Qazi & Kamal Mishra

The protesters were further enraged by claims that the parents of the girls were made to wait 11 hours at a local police station before a first-information report was filed.

Thousands of furious agitators flooded the streets and railway tracks, disrupting train services between Badlapur and Karjat-Khopoli for 10 hours. The preschool too was stormed by hundreds of protesters, many of them angry parents, who vandalised the school building to express their disgust over the sexual assault. Police had to resort to tear gas and lathicharge as parts of the school as well as three vehicles, including a State Transport (ST) bus and a police van, were destroyed by the protesters seeking action against the alleged perpetrator as well as the school administration.