3 rape incidents reported in city, one accused held

Three incidents of rape were reported from the city on Wednesday. A senior police official said that a 20 year-old woman was allegedly raped in North Delhi’s Kotwali area. “The woman, a resident a Jahangirpuri, lost her way and met a rickshawpuller. He offered her a ride and took her to an isolated place behind Red Fort where he raped her. Few PCR personnel rushed to her rescue on hearing her screams. They nabbed the accused who was trying to flee. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical examination where raped was proved in her report,” said the police official. The police said that the accused was identified as Rahul, a resident of Kashmere Gate. In another incident, a five-year-old girl was raped by a 19-year-old Class 11 student in Malviya Nagar on Wednesday. The police said that the accused, identified as Himanshu, lives in the neighbourhood of the victim. “We took the victim to a hospital where rape was confirmed in examination,” said the police official. In another incident, a 42-year-old woman alleged that she was raped by a man at Shani Niketan in South Delhi. “She said that the accused was known to her,” said the police official who refused to divulge more information about the incident.

*** Neelam Katara plea against shifting convicts Age Correspondent New Delhi, March 20

Neelam Katara, mother of Nitish Katara who was murdered in 2002, moved the Delhi high court on Wednesday against the Tihar authority’s decision to shift convicts Vikas and Vishal Yadav undergoing life sentence for killing her son to a prison in UP, their home state. In the plea, she said that the Supreme Court had transferred the murder case from Ghaziabad to Delhi on the ground that D.P. Yadav, the father of Vikas, is an influential person in U.P. and there is threat to witnesses in the case. Ms Katara said that as per media reports, the Delhi government has written a letter to home secretaries of other states for moving out convicts, who have been brought here following an apex court’s order, back to their home states.