On the day of the fourth anniversary of Nirbhaya on Friday, another brutal rape of a 19-year-old girl—allegedly by the taxi driver inside the cab in which she was travelling—showed that as far as women's safety is concerned, nothing has changed.
It has been four years since the brutal gang-rape of 23-year-old paramedical student, now known to the nation, as Nirbhaya. The brutal gang rape caused mass protests in the capital and promises of change. All of these seem empty words now.
On the day of the fourth anniversary of Nirbhaya on Friday, another brutal rape of a 19-year-old girl—allegedly by the taxi driver inside the cab in which she was travelling—showed that as far as women's safety is concerned, nothing has changed.
Police officials said that the girl was found in the intervening night on Friday. The victim claimed that her hands were tied and her mouth covered before she was raped. What is even worse is that the car had a parking sticker 'Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India, Krishi Bhawan'.
The victim, a resident of Noida, was in Green Park for a job interview. She had to visit a friend there and around 5pm on Friday when she reached her friend's house, she found it locked. The victim then took an auto-rickshaw and left for home.
"I got down at Prithiviraj bus stop and I kept waiting there in search of a transport back home but some boys started troubling me and then a cab driver approached me. He asked me where I wanted to go and I told him I wanted to reach Noida. He offered to drop me and I sat in the cab," said the victim in her complaint.
According to the police, it was around 9 pm that the victim sat in the cab and because she was unaware about the route, she did not know where the cab driver was taking her.
"He parked the car on the side in one of the by-lanes and tied my hands. He covered my mouth and adjusted the back seat of the car. He then raped me and despite me trying to raise an alarm, I could not be heard. He then got down from the car and I managed to open the window and free myself," she said.
Police officials said that around 1:30 am, the victim reached a roundabout where a police party was patrolling. She approached them and narrated her ordeal. The victim took the police officials to the location in one of the lanes behind the Basrukar market in Moti Bagh Phase-I.
Officials added that the car was found at the spot but the accused had fled. The car also had a parking sticker of the MHA, and the police have started investigations on how it was procured.
Medical examination confirmed that the girl was raped. She is now being counselled. The police traced the owner of the car to a house in Kotla Mubarakpur.
"We were informed by the owner that he had given the car to the driver and tried to reach the accused, Avneesh, on his mobile phone. But it was switched off. Later, with the help of technical surveillance and people whom he had contacted after the crime, he was traced to one of the jhuggis, where he was drinking with his friends," said DCP, South, Ishwar Singh. A forensic examination of the car was also conducted.
Avneesh has been living in Delhi for four years and was earlier a school-van driver. He is married and has two children and hails from Ittawa.
A case has been registered. Further investigations are under way.
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