New Delhi: A 20-year-old woman, who had come to Delhi from Noida to look for a job, was driven around in a car for over two hours and raped by a driver in South Delhi’s Moti Bagh area on Wednesday late night.
The incident came to light on Friday on the fourth anniversary of the December 16 gangrape incident, which had triggered massive outrage forcing the government to come out with stricter legal provisions to deal with crimes against women. The girl, a resident of Noida, was waiting for a bus near AIIMS on Wednesday evening when the accused Avneesh (28), driving a car which had a Home ministry sticker on it offered to drop her. The police said the accused is the driver of a man whose father works in CISF. Avneesh allegedly raped the girl inside the car in an isolated area in Moti Bagh and held her captive inside the cab. She, however, managed to flee around midnight and was found by a police patrol team which brought her to South Campus police station in the wee hours on Thursday. The accused has been caught from the slums near the spot where the cab was parked. The accused was identified as Avneesh, a resident of Etah in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on Thursday early morning. He has been staying in Delhi for the last three-four years. He is married with two kids. Earlier, he was working as a school cab driver. “The car is a private vehicle. The owner’s father works in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and is posted in Delhi. We will be questioning them about the sticker. If it has been procured illegally, action will be taken against them,” said Ishwar Singh, DCP (South). He will be interrogated in detail, said the officer. Mr Singh said motorcycle patrol team accompanied by an emergency response vehicle had taken the victim to the area where the accused raped her and she had managed to identify the place. The operation was once again resumed after her medical examination was over at around 5.30 am on Thursday.
“The professional combing of the area led the police to the suspect’s car that was parked at a distance of nearly 100 metres from the location initially narrated by the complainant, along with two or three other cars in the nearby jhuggi,” he said.
On the basis of the registration number of the vehicle, the address of the owner was traced to Kotla Mubarakpur. “When we picked up the owner, he told us that the car in question belonged to him, but it was with his driver Avneesh. When he called Avneesh, his phone was found to be switched off,” said Mr Singh.
After this, the immediate technical analysis of the call detail records of the driver was carried out and friends and acquaintances whom he used to interact with frequently were questioned, said the officer.
Around 1.30 pm, the police zeroed in on the accused and by 2 pm, Avneesh was located in a slum situated in Moti Bagh area, where he was about to begin drinking with a friend, he added. During preliminary interrogation, he confessed to the crime, Mr Singh claimed.
Later, keeping in mind the importance of forensic and biological evidence in such cases, experts from Regional Forensic Science Laboratory (RFSL) were requisitioned and a thorough search and inspection of the car was carried out.
