Paedophile finally caught, admits to have abused 25 girls in 6 months S Ahmed Ali TNN  April 17,2014 Mumbai: Two weeks of chase by around 60 policemen finally led to the arrest of a serial molester from Gilbert Hill in Andheri (W) on Wednesday. The accused, Aiyyaz Ali Ansari, has confessed to have sexually assaulted 25 minor girls from across the city in the past six months. He also had chain-snatching and mobile theft cases registered against him earlier.     Though Ansari had reportedly been sexually abusing several girls—all of them in the age group of eight to 15 years—for long, it was only on April 7 that the police could finally identify him when his image was found on a CCTV camera at Vallabh Nagar in Sion where he was caught sexually abusing a Class VI student. The distinguished feature that gave Ansari away was his damaged left eye, a description provided by several victims from other places such as Wadala, Sion, Antop Hill, Sahar and D N Nagar in Andheri, as well as a CCTV image in a Sahar building. “Besides the 13 offences that have already been registered against him, Ansari has confessed to have sexually abused another 12 girls in Andheri, Juhu, Kandivli and Malad. We will also probe those cases about which we were not aware,” said Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria. He added that Ansari was a smooth talker; on zeroing in on a target, he would befriend the girl and convince her that he was her father’s friend. Then he would lure them to a secluded spot where he would assault them, he said. “Different provisions of the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act will be invoked. We will also make him go through some tests to understand his mind. We will ensure his conviction,’’ he said.     Maria told reporters that Ansari had fled to Pune on learning that the police have intensified their search and released his identity sketch. “But he was forced to return to the city on Wednesday after he ran out of money,” Maria said, adding that immediately after returning to the city, he stole an expensive mobile in Malad.     After zeroing in on Ansari’s image from CCTV grabs, the police sifted through criminals’ records and identified him. They visited his home in aslum at Gilbert Hill. “Ansari’s mother and two brothers were detained but they told us Ansari had not visited them for six months. We remained in touch with his brothers,” said DCP Cherring Dorje. On Wednesday after he returned to the city, Ansari’s brother got a call from a landline in Khar. “It was Ansari, asking for money. His brother told him to stay put at Khar and promised to meet him. We went with him and arrested him,” said a cop from the D N Nagar police station. 7-year-old raped The Kurla GRP on Wednesday lodged a case against an unidentified man for allegedly raping 7-year-old girl outside Bhandup station. The incident took place on Monday when the girl, who had come to the station with her parents, strayed away. On spotting the lone girl, the accused lured her with a chocolate and took her to a desolate spot, where he allegedly raped her. On Wednesday, a social worker saw the girl roaming in Bhandup and brought her to the GRP, which is trying to trace her kin. TNN DAMAGED EYE HELPED COPS NAB HIM  ACCUSED | A resident of a slum pocket at Gilbert Hill in Andheri (W), Aiyyaz Ali Ansari’s crime graph dates back to 2010 when he was first caught for chain-snatching. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol for which he took to thefts     Ansari (32) was last arrested in Jan 2013 for chain-snatching and released in May that year. After that, he has reportedly been involved in 25 sexual abuse cases at Andheri, Juhu, Malad, Amboli, Kandivli, Wadala and Sion     On learning that the police have released his ID sketch, Ansari fled to Pune but returned to Mumbai on Wednesday. He called his brother from Khar for money. The cops went along with his brother and nabbed Ansari ASSAULT ON YOUNGSTERSOn April 7, Ansari was caught on a CCTV camera in Sion when he abused a Class VI girl. He took her to a secluded place on the pretext that her father was searching for her and assaulted her On March 29, Ansari had similarly      gained the confidence of a girl at Sahar in Andheri by posing as her father’s friend and sexually abused her. He was caught on CCTV cameras there as well CASES | Ansari was caught by an SIT and the D N Nagar police. He has been confessed to have assaulted 25 girls. He has been booked under the POCSO Act