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Cops chase down abductors, rescue 24-yr-old pub staffer

NEW DELHI: Heroic action by the Delhi Police and a cab driver foiled what could have been another Dhaula Kuan-type abduction and molestation of a young woman in a moving vehicle, in the wee hours of Sunday. In an operation code-named Mousetrap that lasted an hour, cops located and chased down a Scorpio in which five drunken youths had abducted an employee of a Gurgaon nightclub, and finally rescued the 24-year-old woman at a jungle road near Aya Nagar in south Delhi, around 4.10am. Two of her assailants were nabbed while three managed to get away. The youths had been following the woman, who along with three others had hailed a radio taxi around 2.30am from Gurgaons Sahara Mall to return to their residence in Badarpur. At the Ghitorni Metro Station, the youths in their Scorpio forced the cab to stop and tried to pull out the women. The cab driver, Amit Sharma, resisted the assailants. He was beaten up and even offered Rs 1,000 to let the occupants out of his Alto. The accused then dragged the 24-year-old victim, who was sitting on the front seat, into their SUV and drove off. They took all the four mobile phones from the women so they could not make calls, said DCP (South) Chhaya Sharma. The men also tried to force another woman into their Scorpio but failed, she said. Sharma, the cab driver whose mobile was not taken, called up the cops at 3.12am. The South district police quickly launched a hunt. The nearest police picket, at Aya Nagar, was informed and a team of four personnel on patrol duty - sub-inspectors Kuldeep Sharma and Bansi Lal, and constables Chander Bhan and Raghubir - set off in a Tata 407 tempo to look for the Scorpio. The target was spotted around 4am near Jaunapur Road and the chase began. Police said the tempo hit the Scorpio several times in an attempt to make it stop but the accused were in no mood to give in. Finally, the police team trapped them at a bottleneck on a jungle road near Aya Nagar and rescued the woman. They managed to catch two of the accused, Kartar Singh and Pramod, while the other three escaped

                                                                                                               
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