Two brothers arrested for molesting woman
The south Delhi district police on Sunday apprehended two brothers in connection with a molestation case of a 27-year-old woman. The incident happened in the Greater Kailash II area in late hours of Thursday when the woman was coming out of a restaurant-pub. Meanwhile, the accused, owners of a Lajpat Nagar-based private firm, have revealed the whereabouts of four more friends who were involved in the incident. However, the other four men are still on the run.
The additional commissioner (southeast) Virender Singh Chahal said that the woman had come to the pub with some of her acquaintances. “She had come out of the pub and was standing outside when four men on two bikes approached her. The accused were on motorcycles. She tried to ignore them, but the accused started passing lewd comments at her,” said Chahal. The incident took place around 1 am on Thursday night, confirmed the police.
Sources at the C.R. Park police station claimed that the accused had even tried to touch her by encircling her with their bikes. She went inside the pub to save herself. Senior officers denied that she was beaten up by the accused. “The victim approached us the next morning and we registered a case of molestation, outraging the modesty of a woman and wrongful restraint . We have arrested the two brothers from Lajpat Nagar. Our investigations have revealed that two more accused are absconding. We are questioning the brothers and hope to nab all the accused soon,” added Chahal.
In 2010, there was a rise in rape and molestation cases, including the abduction and gangrape of a young BPO staffer in Dhaula Kuan. There were 489 rape incidents as against 459 in 2009. The figure for 2006 was 609, 581 for 2007 and 466 for 2008. There was a rise in molestation cases as well this year — from last year’s 532 to 585. While 2008 had witnessed 597 cases, there were 835 such incidents in 2007. The rape per lakh population has shown an increase to 2.8 from last year’s 2.65. The figure was 4.16 in 2005 and 3.82 in 2006, the highest in the last decade. Of the persons arrested for rape, 52 were relatives, 65 friends, 222 neighbours and 130 other known persons.
In only 20 cases, rapes were committed by strangers. In molestation cases, neighbours were accused in 42% of the cases, while 4% were friends and 6% relatives.
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