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Nepalese woman abducted, gangraped in Delhi

Staff Reporter

Two accused have been arrested; one managed to escape
Provisions of human trafficking also added in the case

NEW DELHI: A young Nepalese woman was allegedly abducted by the driver of an auto-rickshaw she hired from Indira Gandhi International Airport here this past week and kept in confinement for over a day in his house at Mandawali in the trans-Yamuna area where she was criminally assaulted by him and two accomplices.

Two of the accused have been arrested.

According to the police, the 22-year-old victim was brought to the Capital by her acquaintance Manoj on July 1 as she had to board a flight to Dubai from here.

She stayed with him in the Nehru Vihar area of Mukherjee Nagar for a day, after which Manoj took her to the airport late on July 2 night. However, she missed the flight.

Manoj left her at the airport on the pretext of getting her travel documents updated. When he did not return for long, the woman called him up on his mobile phone asking him to pick her up. However, claiming that he had met with an accident, Manoj asked her to come on her own by hiring an auto-rickshaw.

The victim then hired an auto-rickshaw, but she could not properly specify the place she had to go. Instead of taking her to Nehru Vihar, the driver — later identified as Vinod — took her to Nehru Camp in Mandawali. When she said it was not her destination, he allegedly took her to his nearby rented accommodation where he kept her in confinement and criminally assaulted her along with his accomplices, Ram Kishore and Awadhesh.

Later, Vinod’s landlord and neighbours came to know about the woman and informed the police. Based on her complaint and a medical report, the police registered a case on Saturday. While Vinod managed to escape, the other two have been arrested.

The police suspect that the woman is also a victim of human trafficking and that the man who had brought her to Delhi promising to get her a job in Dubai is part of a wide network.

They have added provisions pertaining to human trafficking in the case and are on the lookout for Manoj. “He can help us reconstruct the entire chain of events leading up to the crime and we suspect that many more persons are involved in the trafficking network,” said a police officer.

It is learnt that the victim is married and has a child.

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