Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly raping a 24-year-old girl of North-Eastern state inside the Deer Park in South Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village on Saturday night. According to the police, the arrested accused has been identified as Raja, a resident of Arjun Nagar. The accused disclosed that he along with his juvenile friend had offered to drop the girl to a spot from where she can hail a cab. However, the accused took her to Deer Park where he sexually assaulted her.
The incident came to light on Saturday at around 10 pm when the woman who is a student of English speaking curse was returning home from a restaurant in Hauz Khas Village. In the mid-way when she was on her foot, Raja alias Jundal approached her and offered her a drop. Raja is working as sanitation staff in the café.
When the woman agreed to it, Raja started walking with her and told that he was taking her to his cab that was parked some distance away, and then he led her to an isolated stretch. The accused took her near the dry pond made for ducks inside the Deer Park and raped her twice threatening her to kill. The victim tried to get out of the clutches of the accused and hit a stone on his right temple after which he started bleeding and finally he ran away by scaling the boundary wall of Deer Park.
According to Raja, at the time of the incident he was with his juvenile friend and had consumed alcohol. “He then targeted the victim who was waiting for an auto rickshaw. In the meantime, his juvenile friend left and he approached the woman and on pretext for dropping her home safely he raped her twice,” a senior police official said.
“The accused has revealed that he had attended school at his native village in Rajasthan and studied till 5th standard. After that his family came to Delhi and he started taking alcohol and Ganja in his early teen age due to bad company. The accused has admitted his crime and revealed that he had committed rape on victim twice on the night of incident and robbed her I-phone and `600 cash from the hand bag of the victim,” Ishwar Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South district) said.
A case under sections 376 (Rape), 392 (Robbery), 506 (Criminal Intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him at Safdarjung Enclave police station.