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September 02, 2004
Child abuse case: Cops leave for US
By: PTI -- September 1, 2004
A team of Mumbai police today left for the United States to take the custody of Allan Johan Water, a British national, wanted here in connection with a child sexual abuse case of 2001.
Water's accomplice, Duncan Grant, who is also wanted in the case, has been nabbed in Tanzania.
City police are preparing to seek Grant's extradition.
Mumbai police sources confirmed that a two-member team left for United States this morning to take Water's custody.
Water was arrested by US authorities earlier this year on the basis of a red-corner notice issued by Interpol at the instance of Mumbai police. An extradition process followed thereafter and the British national is being finally brought to Mumbai, the sources said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Dhananjay Kamalakar said that Mumbai crime branch was doing the paperwork to have Grant extradited after his arrest by Tanzanian police in a similar child abuse last week.
Water and Grant were booked by Mumbai police in 2001 on the charge of allegedly sexually abusing street children who had taken refuge at the orphanage set by the two in Colaba area of south Mumbai.
Sources said the two British nationals set up orphanage named "Anchorage shelter" in 1999, backed by funds from British donors, and provided shelter to street children.
After allegations of child sexual abuse came up against Water and Grant, police registered a case against them on the basis of complaint lodged by few children.
Posted by Nealus at September 2, 2004 06:53 PM
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