A 45 year old auto-rickshaw driver
identified as Aagya Pal Singh and his
brother have been arrested for
allegedly molesting an unidentified 22-
year-old Nigerian girl pursuing her
second year graduation from a Delhi
University college in West Delhi, India.
According to reports, the young
Nigerian girl was out to visit her friend
‘s home around 1.30 a.m. on Friday
January 8th and had gotten into a hired
auto-rickshaw in Tilak Nagar, when
another man entered the vehicle and
sat next to her.
The two men allegedly took turns to
molest her in the running vehicle.
When she resisted, they pushed her out
of the running vehicle, injuring her.
Since the crime spot was not an auto
stand, police were clueless about the
identity of the suspects. Indian police
scanned 17 CCTV cameras in the area,
but had no luck.
“Only one CCTV had captured the auto,
but the registration number was
unreadable. The woman’s frequent use
of local language and her heavy-
accented broken English turned out to
be an additional barrier for the
investigating officers,” Pushpendra
Kumar, DCP (West), told Indian
newspaper, The Hindu.
A South Indian woman married to a
Nigerian national was invited to help
with the language. The victim told the
police that her assailants were possibly
injured in their heads as they were
wearing “bandages”.
A better communication with the victim
led the police to realize that the
“bandages” were turbans.
The Nigerian woman was then taken to
some turban shops to identify the kind
of turbans worn by the suspects.
Once that was ascertained, police used
other visual descriptions provided by
the victim to conduct local
interrogation and identify the suspects.
The 45 year old man was arrested at his
home on Monday January 11th . He
confessed to the crime. “The arrested
suspect was driving the auto-rickshaw
while his brother Baljeet Singh was the
one who sat next to the victim.
Finding the woman alone in the dead
of the night, the brothers tried to take
advantage of her,” said a police officer.
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