In a sensational incident, a 32-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped and molested by unidentified men in Outer Delhi’s Mangolpuri area on Saturday evening. Hearing her cries for help, two youths, Aman and Amit in a car intercepted the car being driven by the accused persons, to rescue her. However, a scuffle broke out between the accused and the two youths which further escalated when large number of locals too joined in and torched the car of the accused.
With the help of locals, two of the accused were caught and handed over to the local police while the third accused managed to flee the spot. On the other hand, the two youths claimed that when the accused were forcibly taking the woman away, a Police Control Room (PCR) van was standing nearby. “Despite standing near the place from where the car of those three men crossed, the PCR staff did nothing to save her from the clutches of her tormentors. The woman was constantly screaming and yelling. It was only when we heard her cries that we thought of following the car,” said one of the youths.
According to a senior police officer, the incident took place at around 8 pm in the Sector-22 of Rohini when the woman had gone out to buy groceries. While returning home, unidentified men in a moving car intercepted her and abducted her.
Soon a mob gathered, grabbed the perpetrators and almost beat them to death. They also vandalised the car of the accused and set it on fire. later, police arrived on the scene and arrested two accused as one managed to flee from the incident. According to police, the two arrested culprits are from Karala village and kidnapped the girl from the Y-block of Mangolpuri while she was returning home.
The woman has been admitted to a hospital for further medical examination and a case has been registered against the all three accused people at Mangolpuri police station.
MN Tiwari, the Deputy Commissioner of Polic (DCP) of Outer district said, "We have arrested two persons. During preliminary investigation, it appears that the woman spoke to one of the accused prior to the incident. We are analysing whether she knew the accused.'