A 38-year-old woman was allegedly raped by an Uber driver on the pretext of helping her to get a job, following which the accused was arrested from East Delhi’s Farsh Bazar area.
The accused has been identified as Kamal. The police said they faced some difficulty in identifying the accused, a 45-year-old twice-married father of four, as the victim suffers from short-term memory loss.
The incident was reported on the night of July 6 when the Farsh Bazaar police received a call from the lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in Kalyanpuri saying that a sexual-assault victim had been brought to the hospital.
The woman told police that she went to Karkardooma court in connection with her divorce case on July 6.
While standing near gate Number 4 of the court, she met Kamal to whom she narrated her marital problems and also the fact that she is unemployed. The man told her that he could speak to his wife and probably help her in getting a job, the police said.
He took her to his home where he allegedly raped her and also thrashed her, they said, adding the accused’s children were present in the house when he raped her. later, he dropped her back near the court, from where she went to the hospital in Kalyanpuri.