Woman sexually harassed, robbed by caretakers of disabled father

A 45-year-old Kurla-based teacher has accused two caretakers of sexual harassment and theft. The woman has accused one of the caretakers of sending a lewd message and another one of stealing Rs 19,000 from her purse. A case was registered at the Nehru Nagar police station in this regard.

According to the police, the woman, who stays with her paralysed father at Kurla, had sought assistance from an agency to provide a caretaker to look after her elderly father. While the agency had sent a man, Devilal Das, 32, resident of Bihar's Darbhanga, for the job, he never turned up and the woman complained to the agency.

She was immediately provided with another caretaker, Mithilesh Das, 34, who too was a Darbhanga resident. While Mithilesh stayed with the woman's father round the clock from September 9 last year, he stopped turning up for work from March 11. Even as the teacher tried to contact him and ascertain why he was not around, she never received any responses.

Recently, when the woman searched her purse for Rs 32,000 she had withdrawn for her father's treatment, she found out that Rs 19,000 was missing, hinting that Mithilesh could have stolen the money on March 3 when she had brought the money home. Later, the woman learnt that Devilal and Mithilesh were relatives.

Moreover, while awaiting Mithilesh's return, the woman received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number, wherein the user had sent an obscene video to her. When she ignored the message, he sent her a lewd text. The woman realised that this was Devilal's number and immediately approached the police to lodge the present complaint.

No arrests have been made yet as further probe is on, the police said.