Posted On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 02:00:24 AM
Duncan Grant and Allan Waters, the two former British Navy officers, convicted on charges of sexual abuse of minor boys in a shelter run by them in Mumbai, were arrested on Monday, three days after Supreme Court overturned their acquittal by Bombay High Court. Grant and Waters, who were sentenced to six years in jail had been acquitted by HC in 2008. The Indian manager at the shelter, William D'Souza, 49, had also been sentenced to three years for abetment.
“We moved an application in Sessions Court on Saturday on the Supreme Court verdict upholding the decision of the two former British Navy officers,” said Vinod Sawant, senior inspector at Colaba police station. “On Monday, after getting the non-bailable warrant we picked them up from their residence at Badhwar Park.” The duo have been charged with sodomy and sexually abusing five minors in the Anchorage Orphanage in Colaba. The case first came to light in 2001 when Childline received a distress call from a 15-year-old boy who complained of sexual abuse at the shelter. Four other boys followed suit. Later, the police charged the three men with sodomy and sexually abusing boys. The case against the trio was registered in November 2001, by which time Waters and Grant had left the country. While Waters was later arrested in USA in pursuance of an Interpol notice and brought to India, Grant had surrendered before an Indian court in 2002 |