A day after Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani alleged that she was stalked by four youths near the Myanmar Embassy in lutyens’ Delhi while she was heading home from the Delhi airport, two youths have extended apology on their behaviour to the Union Minister. The four youths-Anand Sharma, Kunal, Avinash and Shitanshu, all first year students of the Delhi University’s Ram lal Anand College were allegedly drunk driving in the Chanakyapuri area on Saturday evening when they crossed Smriti Irani’s car.
Booked under sections of stalking and outraging the modesty of the woman at the Chanakyapuri police station after the Union Minister made a PCR call, the four youths were detained and released after a few hours on bail.
After being released on bail, the two youths- Kunal and Avinash reportedly apologized and said that they were just having fun which went out of context.
“We four were returning from our friend’s birthday party. We do agree that we have flouted the rules. We were making a video for Instagram and the music in the car was loud. We were just making funny videos. When we overtook the car, we didn’t know that Smriti Irani was there in it. We would have not done this if we knew that it was Smriti Irani’s car,” said one of the accused.
“We have apologised for our mistake. We have not done anything objectionable, but if she feels so then we are apologizing for it.We do agree that they have taken the right action against us. We won’t repeat this ever,” he added.
The other accused also apologised for the mistake, saying they were not aware that Irani was there in that car.
“We apologized for our misconduct but they didn’t listen to us and took us to the police station. We had consumed alocohol because we had gone to our friend’s birthday party,” he said.
Earlier on Sunday, the four college students who were booked for tailing Irani’s car last evening in a state of inebriation were granted bail.
The FIR has been filed against them under Section 354 D (stalking) and Section 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The four students had consumed alcohol at a friend’s birthday party. On their way back home, they started chasing down the Union Minister’s car, the Delhi Police said.