Mirzamurad Police Arrest Mother After Probe Finds Role in Stepdaughter Assault Case

Mirzamurad police on Thursday, 10 September 2026, arrested the stepmother in an ongoing case involving alleged sexual assault and related offences against her minor stepdaughter after the woman came to the police station, station house officer Inspector Gopal Ji Kushwaha said. She was sent to judicial custody. The child’s father, Mahesh, had already been arrested on 3 September in the same investigation. The minor survivor is not being named or otherwise identified in this report.

Police say the case was registered after the stepdaughter approached senior police leadership and a first information report was taken up on the night of 7 August. Sections cited in briefing accounts include offences relating to rape, unlawful termination of pregnancy, kidnapping and provisions under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences framework. Those are allegations under investigation and before the courts. This desk records the legal headings as stated by police and does not reproduce graphic particulars of the alleged acts.

The Thursday arrest followed the woman’s visit to Mirzamurad police station. Kushwaha’s account places the custody action at that visit rather than at a separate field raid. Judicial custody is the next procedural step after police production; it is not a finding of guilt. The father’s earlier 3 September arrest remains the first adult custody stamp on the same file.

Protecting the minor’s identity is a hard rule for this pack. The survivor’s name, school, precise village landmarks that would single her out, and any descriptive detail that could identify her are withheld. The stepmother is identified as Manisha in police-linked accounts; the father is identified as Mahesh. Adult accused may be named; the child may not.

Crime reporting on POCSO-linked files stays inside police and court procedure: who was arrested, when, on what alleged sections, and what custody order followed. It does not reconstruct alleged scenes, quote sensational claims about the child’s body, or treat unverified neighbourhood gossip as fact. Where earlier complaint narratives differ on peripheral dates or intermediaries, this desk sticks to the SO’s Thursday arrest line and the 3 September custody of the father.

Family-linked assault allegations are among the hardest local crime stories to write without harming the survivor twice — once through the alleged offence and again through identification. The public interest here is that Mirzamurad police have now taken both adult custodians into the case process and that a court will test the evidence. It is not entertainment.

Until charge sheets and court orders say otherwise, the locked facts are narrow and deliberate: on 10 September the stepmother was arrested at Mirzamurad police station and remanded to judicial custody; the father Mahesh has been in custody since 3 September; Inspector Gopal Ji Kushwaha is the named investigating station lead; and the minor survivor remains unnamed.