The Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 3 has arrested her 46-year-old man for alleged sexual abuse of his minor daughter. According to the crime branch officials, a man had approached the Tardeo Police claiming his 14-year-old daughter had gone missing and apprehended that the girl might have been kidnapped. The crime branch also launched a search for the girl after the report was filed on October 2.

A crime branch official said that the girl was traced near Mahalaxmi Railway station on Thursday. The girl was taken to crime branch Unit 3 and the female officer who had accompanied the girl recorded her statement. “She revealed that she had been sexually exploited by her father for the past five years. Not wanting the sexual exploitation to continue, she left the house never wanting to return,” an officer said.