: A Delhi University professor was allegedly assaulted by a snatcher after he failed to grab her bag at a refuelling station in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar.
The incident happened on Tuesday, when the victim was headed to college in her car.
Sharing her ordeal on Facebook, the woman wrote, “As I was boarding my car, a bike-borne man in an orange hoodie approached me, and tried to snatch my bag. When I pulled him and my bag back, he fell down and began abusing and threatening me.”
After that it was a “blur of slapping, punches” that caused her spectacles to break, she alleged.
Nobody to help
“I turned to the petrol pump agents and by-standers to note his vehicle number down. They simply looked away, even as the emboldened man came closer, punched me again and sped away,” she wrote.
Once the assailant had escaped, some people lambasted the petrol pump agents and guards for not reacting.
“The police arrived after my call. I was then informed that not all cameras at the station were working,” she alleged.
The incident, however, was captured on the sole functional CCTV camera. The footage neither shows the assailant’s face nor does it seem to have captured his motorcycle’s registration number.
No clues yet
The police said they had registered a case on charges of causing hurt, criminal intimidation and doing acts with an intention to outrage the modesty of a woman. They are, however, yet to make any headway.
