A pregnant and deaf-mute woman was beaten black and blue by a mob over suspicion of being a child-lifter in Northeast Delhi, police said on Sunday. A resident of Southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad, the woman is recuperating in hospital and is stated to be stable.
Three people have been arrested for the assault on a complaint lodged by the woman’s family members.
“We have arrested three persons, Deepak (27), B Shakuntala (52) and Lalit Kumar (29), residents of Mandoli,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) Atul Kumar Thakur.
The four-month pregnant woman was beaten up by a mob in Harsh Vihar on August 27 over suspicion that she was a child lifter, the Deputy Commissioner of Police said.
The woman’s family alleged that her in-laws had banished her from their Faridabad home on August 18 and said she was missing since then. “Somehow the woman reached Harsh Vihar and was staying on a footpath. Locals used to give her food but on August 27, they attacked her over allegations of child lifting,” a police officer said.
The family approached the Delhi Police after seeing a video of the incident.