Kamal Ghorui
MUMBAI/NASHIK: A team from Nashik crime branch on Friday reached Mumbra in Thane in search of a 26-year-old TCS employee accused of subjecting a co-worker to religious harassment at the workplace.Originally from Nashik, the woman had recently moved to Mumbai after her husband secured employment with a private company in Mumbra.Police tracked down and detained her husband from his office. He was being questioned to ascertain her whereabouts and gather further details related to the case, officials said.A police officer told TOI, “Her husband told investigators that a relative took her back to Nashik a couple of days ago.”SIT expands probe, multiple teams deployedThe woman has been named as a co-accused in the first of nine cases of sexual offences and religious harassment registered by Nashik police against TCS employees.The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the cases has formed three teams to trace her. Officials said she had been residing in Mumbra for the past two months.A Mumbra police officer, who did not wish to be named, said, “Her husband told investigators that a relative took her back to Nashik a couple of days ago.”Husband questioned after being picked up from workplaceAs part of the ongoing probe, a team from Nashik Crime Branch Unit 1 tracked down and detained her husband from his workplace in Mumbra.Till the last reports came in, he was being questioned to ascertain her whereabouts and gather further details related to the case.Police said the couple had been living in a rented apartment in the Amrut Nagar area since February this year. After her transfer, she had been commuting to her office in Malad and Hiranandani.Anticipatory bail move citing pregnancyThe woman is now preparing to file an anticipatory bail plea before a Nashik sessions court, citing pregnancy as one of the grounds for relief.Her lawyer Baba Sayyad told TOI on Friday, “We are finalising the anticipatory bail plea and support documents in consultation with our client’s father, who is in Nashik for this purpose.”Sayyad said, “Going by the FIR, the case against our client is pertaining to hurting religious sentiments. It is the Constitutional right of our client to seek anticipatory bail. Our client is in her early stage of pregnancy and hence that also would be another reason that she was seeking anticipatory bail. We will be processing the plea in a couple of days with the Nashik sessions court.”
