BPO employee molested near Dhaula Kuan

The incident occurred while the 26-year-old woman was waiting for her office cab

The incident occurred while the 26-year-old woman was waiting for her office cab

A 26-year-old BPO employee was molested by a youth near Dhaula Kuan during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

How Safe: The Capital has seen a rise in molestation cases - from 532
in 2009 to 585 in 2010. Representative pic

Sources said thatu00a0 the incident occurred at around 1 am when Anupama (name changed) was waiting for her official cab near Satya Niketan bus stand on Ring Road.

"The victim works with Gurgaon based call centre and lives in a rented accommodation in the area. Like every other day, she was waiting for her office cab when the accused, who was in an inebriated condition, reached there. Finding her alone, he allegedly hugged and kissed her. The victim ran away, shouting for help," a police official said.

Hearing her cries, the policemen posted at a picket nearby rushed to the spot. Seeing the cops coming, the accused tried to run away but was chased and nabbed by the cops. He was then arrested on the basis of the report of girl," the official added.

Police said that the accused, identified as Deepak Rawat a resident of sector 7 of R K Puram, was also a call centre employee,. Though DCP (South Delhi,) HGS Dhaliwal denied the incidentu00a0 had taken place, a police source confirmed that an FIR number 27 under section 509 (outraging modesty of a woman) was registered by the police in this connection at Dhaula Kuan police station.

Other cases in the area

On November 24 last year, a call centre employee hailing form Mizoram was allegedly kidnapped by five persons and gang raped in a moving mini truck.
She was walking towards her residence in Moti Bagh village near Dhaula Kuan in South Delhi along with one of her colleagues when the accused kidnapped her, put her in their vehicle and sped off. They later dumped her near Mongolpuri in Outer Delhi. South Delhi Police later arrested five persons from Mewat in this connection.
In 2005, four men in a car had abducted a student from Northeast, from near a Dhaula Kuan eatery late at night and then raped her in a moving vehicle. A city court later sentenced one person to 14 years in prisonu00a0 and also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 on him.

Rapes on rise

Last year saw a spurt in rape and molestation cases in the city. 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 last 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.