In a dark repetition of Nirbhaya case, a 35-year-old Nigerian woman who was on a tourist visa in India.was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car in Delhi, Police have arrested the four men and confiscated the car from Mayur Vihar in which the woman was allegedly gang raped.
The woman was found unconscious at the DND toll plaza near Mayur Vihar in east Delhi at 2:45 am on Friday. The toll plaza staff informed the police who took her to the LVS Hospital for a Medical check-up.
The police examined the footage obtained from the CCTV cameras installed at DND and found that she was dropped off by four men driving a Hyundai Accent car. The woman was picked up by the four men ( 22-25 aged ) outside a mall in south Delhi and driven around in their car for at least half an hour before dropped her at DND toll plaza.
In December 2012, a medical student died after being gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi, prompting mass protests and triggering a series of policing and legal reforms. Similarly in 2014 a driver for US-based online taxi service Uber allegedly sexually assaulted a woman passenger in New Delhi while driving her home from a dinner.
2,069 rape cases were registered in New Delhi during 2014 recording a 31 per cent jump compared to the previous year, police said as a result of awareness campgian on the Nirbhaya case and the subsequent legal reforms
