Alertness by a neighbour saved the life of an 18-month-old baby girl, who was being abducted by a 27-year-old man on Saturday. The man, identified as one Yashpal, was arrested by the police for trying to abduct the baby girl from outside her house in Outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area on Saturday afternoon. The accused revealed that he intended to rape the minor girl.
Senior police officials of the Outer district said that the accused was high on drugs at the time he was caught by the neighbour and other residents. Several capsules of drugs were recovered form the accused when he was searched by neighbours.
Police said that Yashpal was spotted by the neighbour of the infant girl. “Yashpal confessed that he was taking the minor girl to an isolated spot to sexually assault her”, said a police officer tasked with the investigation of the case.
Rajender Singh Sagar, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) told The Pioneer, “The incident was reported on Saturday afternoon from Mangolpuri area. Yashpal was seen picking the child and taking her away from her house. It was then that one of the child's neighbours stopped him and took away the girl from him and handed the accused to us. We have arrested him and registered a case under IPC section 376 and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.”
Police said that the accused, Yashpal, works at a gas agency in Gurugram. “On Saturday afternoon, he came to Mangolpuri S- block in a car provided by the gas agency.
The officer said, “It was then that Yashpal spotted the minor girl playing outside her residence with no one around her. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he went over and took the girl in his lap and started walking towards an isolated stretch. At that time, he was stopped by the neighbour. The neighbour raised an alarm. locals gathered and thrashed Yashpal. The police staff from Mangolpuri police station also reached the spot,” added the officer.