Mumbai, June 3 -- The city police have registered an FIR (first information report) against a 55-year-old man for allegedly assaulting a 38-year-old transgender woman with a knife and making rape threats over a property dispute, police said here on Tuesday.

According to details, the victim resides in Goregaon East with three other transgender women and the accused is her uncle. Both of them were having a dispute over a property that is currently undergoing redevelopment.

The victim alleged that her uncle had illegally transferred the ownership of the property into his name without the consent of other rightful family members, following which there was a heated argument and on Sunday, accused allegedly assaulted her with a knife, stabbing ...