Two Delhi University students were arrested Friday in connection with the alleged stalking and harassment of two women students in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar, police said. The third accused, Naman, who was allegedly driving the SUV at the time of the incident, is still absconding, police said.
All three are students of DU’s Faculty of Law. Police later traced the vehicle to a parking area in Bhalswa Dairy in outer Delhi. The incident took place around 9.30 pm Wednesday when the two women were near Hakikat Park, according to a complaint filed that night. Police subsequently registered a case under sections 78 (stalking), 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Mukherjee Nagar police station. The white SUV had at least 18 challans pending against it, amounting to ₹ 33,000, sources said.
The arrested students have been identified as Abhimanyu and Abhinav, while the third suspect, Naman, is absconding, deputy commissioner of police (northwest) Akanksha Yadav said. One of the youths told the woman, “Red suits you,” prompting her to object and ask them not to misbehave, according to a senior police officer. “They got aggressive because she had answered back, and started abusing,” the officer said, according to The Times of India .
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She later led a Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) team to the spots where she was allegedly assaulted, helping investigators seize biological evidence, including a condom, from the scene, police said. The rape survivor has told police that each of the three accused allegedly held a knife to her neck while raping her at different secluded locations in the park, according to a senior officer.
