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Victim’s mother lays trap, helps nab rapist

NEW DELHI: On a day when Delhi's new police commissioner B K Gupta announced a slew of measures for the safety of women and children, it emerged that a BA second year student of Delhi University was allegedly kidnapped and gangraped by an auto driver and three of his accomplices while the cops initially refused to register a case saying the crime had taken place outside the police station's jurisdiction. The incident took place last Wednesday (November 3), when the 19-year-old girl, who works part-time at a private firm in Noida and later attends a south Delhi college, was waiting for her office cab around 6am near the Mandawali railway colony in east Delhi. After the crime, one of the accused, auto driver Ramvir (25), brazenly threatened her over the phone on three subsequent days. According to the girl's mother, she posed as the victim and asked Ramvir to meet her at a hospital, from where he was arrested on Monday. Prior to the arrest, the family alleged they were "harassed" by the Mandawali police station cops who refused to lodge a complaint and asked the victim to go to another police station. The police denied the allegations. Additional commissioner (east) K C Dwivedi said the victim was forced into an auto by the four accused and driven 5km away to a desolate spot on the Yamuna bed near the DTC bus depot. "She was then repeatedly raped by the men and then allowed to go home after being warned not to speak about it. Ramvir, while searching her bag, kept her mother's mobile number which was scrolled on a piece of paper," Dwivedi said. According to family sources, the girl returned home after a 10-hour ordeal and narrated the incident to her mother. Her mother, who runs a boutique, asked her keep quiet about the incident. "The next day, the accused called up on her mother's number and demanded to speak with the girl. He then threatened the girl again. When the calls continued for two more days, her parents decided to approach us. We registered a case at the Mandawali police station and admitted the girl to the LBS hospital where rape was confirmed," said Dwivedi. The family has a different version. "The Mandawali police refused to file a case. It is only after we recorded the threats that the cops finally lodged a case on November 6," said a family member. The police said they laid a trap for the accused by asked the girl's mother to phone him. "The accused's mobile details revealed Ramvir was moving around in the Mayapuri area of west Delhi. A trap was laid to persuade him to come to an east Delhi hospital where we arrested him. We have traced another accused to the Sarai Kale Khan area and hope to nab him soon. The other two will also be duly arrested," Dwivedi claimed. The investigating officer said the girl did not know any of the accused. "Our investigations reveal the four had been following the girl's movements for some time," he said.

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