The 14 suspects, all aged between 18 to 27 years and doing petty jobs are unemployed, have been lodged in Arthur Road central prison.
They were paraded before the two lensmen who identified them.
Besides the lensmen, there were three more witnesses who were brought in to identify the alleged molesters. They were assistant commissioner of police (traffic) Amarjeet Singh, whose patrol car was passing by and intervened to rescue the two NRI women, his driver and a constable accompanying him. The statements of all the five witnesses were recorded before a special executive magistrate.
In their self-congratulatory remand application made before a metropolitan magistrate on Friday, the police claimed that they “nabbed” the suspects after a “thorough search and tip-off from informers”.
The two-and-half page remand application made by senior inspector Deepak Katkade of Juhu police station has claimed that the cops nabbed the suspects from the vicinity of their houses and some from the surrounding areas.
However, parents of the suspects, 12 of whom are residing in a Vile Parle housing society, have revealed that no police had come to their society to arrest their sons, and it was the residents themselves who took the erring boys to the police station after seeing their pictures flashed in the media.
The state government has already announced that it will move the Bombay High Court with a plea to set up a fast track court for speedy disposal of the case.