KALYAN: "If my son has done something wrong, then the court should give him the death penalty," said the mother of the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case on Thursday. She said it was unlikely her son assaulted the children.
The accused married thrice over the past two years, and his third wife is now five months pregnant.
The mother works as a cleaner in a different section of the school. Recently, her younger son, who used to work in the school, became a peon in a different section. He then got the suspect to work as a sweeper in the school.
The accused lives with his mother, father, younger brother, and wife in Kharvai village of Badlapur. After a crowd vandalised the family residence, the family are scared for their life. The police have increased the security there.
Before working as a sweeper in the school, the accused worked as a cleaner in a housing society with his mother.
The first two wives of the accused left him soon after marriage, said sources.
The SIT formed for the case has set up eight teams. The SIT visited the school on Thursday and recorded the statement of two woman attendants who were suspended by the school. The SIT also collected other technical details and seized the digital video recorder, which the school said was not functioning for 15 days before the incident came to light.
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