The Delhi Police internal enquiry has found many contradictions in a case in which a teenaged German national had alleged that she was raped by an auto-driver on December 14 , 2015 near the Rajendra Place Metro Station.
It has criticised the Delhi Commission for Women for not immediately sharing the information about the alleged rape with police or the German Embassy or with other statutory authorities. Sources said the examination of the three witnesses showed certain contradictions about the alleged rape incident.
During further enquiry, police examined another hotel employee to corroborate the accounts of other witnesses.
During the course of investigation on February 26 efforts were made to identify the alleged auto-driver on the description provided by the complainant, said sources, adding, “But she gave in writing that she could not provide a complete description of fascial features of the alleged auto driver in absence of which no potrait/sketch of the alleged accused could be prepared.”
Sources further said the delay of 15 days on the part of the DCW in reporting the matter to police was a very serious offence as it had caused an irrepairable loss of vital evidence, “including the memory of the complainant and the CCTV footage.”
The preliminary police report begins by reading that an information was received by police from the lady Hardinge Hospital on February 20 that DCW volunteer Jasvinder Kaur had got admitted one German national for gynecology consultancy. It said a lady officer was immediately sent to the lHMC Hospital where she collected the MlC of the German woman, an alleged rape victim, who had been staying in Nagpur since August 12, 2015.
Quoting the MlC report, police said the German woman had come to India to work voluntarily with an NGO. She had reportedly planned three-week vocation to Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan from December 11 onwards. She is said to have landed in Delhi on December 11 and had been staying in a hotel in Patel Nagar.
The report said she had a fight with her friend at the hotel following which she came out on a street at Patel Nagar. She is said to have lost her way and had sought help of an auto driver, who did not understand english. “After she sat in the auto, the driver came to the back seat after 10 to 15 minutes and started raping her. She shouted for help. But there was no one on the street and there was no light either. After that he raped her again. She jumped out of the auto. The driver came with his friends and started to harass her. His friends molested her. After hearing the noise, they all ran away. Then, she was sitting on the street. An unidentified man helped her to go back to her hotel. She shared her story and has now come up for complaint to lodge the FIR.”
Quoting the MlC, the report said the doctor had remarked “old torn hymen, no injury or scratch mark seen on her person, no discharge, no scratch or bite on breast.”
After collecting the MlC, the German woman gave a written complaint to the police officer in which she narrated the alleged rape which took place on December 14.
Police said since the alleged incident was more than two months old and there was an inordinate delay in lodging the complaint with police, certain questions were asked to her to correct the chain of events and other inherent contradictions in her statement. But the victim is said to have left the police station in a hurry, saying she would clarify certain points shortly. The complaint was reportedly kept pending for verification of facts of the alleged incident.
According to police, in order to verify the facts, immediate action was taken and concerned witnesses traced and examined on February 20. Quoting hotel receptionist Saurav Jindal, police said the German national left the hotel at 11 pm. She reportedly came back to the hotel at 12 midnight in a heavily drunken state. He told police that three Domino’s delivery boys had dropped her at the hotel. He told the investigators that it did not appear to him that she had been raped or assaulted. He told police that one boy had told him that he found the woman weeping and she had told him that her husband had beaten her.
Quoting the scooterist who had offered her help, police said the woman had also told him that she was beaten up by her husband. He said three boys had landed up there and two of them had dropped her to the hotel. The boys had visited the hotel the very next day to find about the welfare of the German national. This statement is said to have been corroborated by one Vishnu Kanth of Etawah in UP, said sources.