MUMBAI: The Charkop police on Thursday arrested a Kandivli restaurant staff member, who had driven out a teenager when she ran towards the eatery to seek help from 10-12 men who groped her near Hindustan Naka on Monday, after she had a squabble with an auto driver over her inability to pay the fare.

The waiter, Pappu Kumar Yadav (20), has been booked under section 114 of IPC (abettor present when offence is committed) as the police want to send out a strong message that even watching a crime happen and refusing help to the survior is not done.

Six youths, including two minors, have been arrested and booked for molestation . On Thursday, four of them were sent to judicial custody.

“The girl said she ran towards the restaurant as the men were chasing her. But someone at the restaurant asked her to leave. We then started a process to identify if this person was a staffer or customer. On Thursday, she identified him to be Yadav,” said senior inspector Anant Koli. Yadav lives in the eatery.

After leaving the restaurant, the girl had tried to board another auto to escape the tormentors, but they followed her and continued to grope her. She kicked and screamed at them, got out of the auto and ran towards a petrol pump.

Minutes later, a beat marshal came to her rescue. While Fayyaz Ahmed Khan (20) was arrested on the spot, the others escaped. Fayyaz later led the cops to three of his aides—Saroj Khan (20), Naushad Khan (24), and Habib Khan (19). All four were remanded in judicial custody by a Dindoshi sessions court on Thursday. They have been sent to the Thane prison. The minors have been sent to Dongri observation home. As cops took over 24 hours to trace the accused, they could not be sent for blood-alcohol tests.