A 45-year-old auto rickshaw driver has been arrested in
connection with the alleged molestation of a Nigerian woman in a moving auto rickshaw near west Delhi's Shahpura, police said on Tuesday
While Aagya Pal Singh has been arrested, the co-accused in the case,
his brother Baljeet Singh, is still on the run. The duo are residents of
west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area, they said.
According to police,
the incident took place in the wee hours of Friday when the woman was
headed to a friend's place in Shahpura.
She took one of two
autorickshaws which she saw parked on the road but, when she entered the
vehicle, the driver of the second autorickshaw got in behind her. She was thereafter allegedly molested on the way, said police.
In her complaint, the woman told police that she had tried to jump off
the moving vehicle but the duo prevented her from doing so.
Finally, one
of the men threw her off the vehicle before driving off. he woman, who sustained injuries, called up police and was rushed to DDU Hospital for treatment.
"In the preliminary inquiry it was found that on the fateful night two
persons - namely Aagya Pal Singh and Baljeet Singh - were present at a
late hour with their auto rickshaws near the place of incident of the
crime.
"Upon a specific input,
Aagya Pal Singh was tracked down yesterday. On being interrogated, he
admitted that he had committed the crime with his brother. Efforts are
on to nab the other accused," DCP (West) Pushpendra Kumar said.
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