Two DU students have been arrested, while a law student remains at large, in connection with the alleged harassment and stalking of two female students in Mukherjee Nagar.
In a development in the case involving the alleged stalking and sexual harassment of two Delhi University (DU) students by a group of men in an SUV in Mukherjee Nagar, police have found at least three suspects to be from the same university.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (North West), Akanksha Yadav, said, “The suspect driving the SUV has been identified as Naman, a student of DU’s Faculty of Law. We learnt that two more DU students were inside the vehicle, a white Tata Safari. We have seized the SUV and are conducting raids to apprehend the suspects. They will be questioned to ascertain if more than three people were involved.”
As has been reported by the police, the woman alleged verbal abuse, passing of indecent remarks, followed by stalking and misbehaviour from the suspects. According to a video circulated online from earlier this week, the victim has clarified that she and her friend were returning from Vijay Nagar when the incident occurred. She further claimed that an SUV pulled up, the people inside rolled down the windows, and proceeded to make inappropriate remarks. When the women asked them to stop misbehaving and leave, the occupants reportedly hurled further abuse, made indecent remarks, and began following them.
The woman has also said, “...when we tried to record a video, the car stopped, and the occupants tried to drag us inside. But when my friend took out her phone, they fled. We first went to Maurice Nagar police station, where the police personnel told us the place where the incident occurred did not come under their jurisdiction and referred us to another police station. We visited three stations…but no FIR was registered. From our sources, we identified one of the occupants. He had threatened us by claiming to be a relative of a Station House Officer (SHO)”
According to a report by NDTV, two of the accused, Abhinav and Abhimanyu were arrested on Friday, while the third accused, Naman is currently on the run. Police are also looking into the student’s allegation that she and her friend had approached multiple police stations before the complaint was registered.
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