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Woman abducted, beaten up and later dumped

Staff Reporter

Her male colleague too bashed up by seven miscreants in a road rage incident

NEW DELHI: In yet another case of road rage in the Capital, a young woman was abducted and her male colleague beaten up by seven men in a Mahindra jeep following an altercation over right of way at Pitampura here in the early hours of Monday. The miscreants later dumped the woman and sped away.

The incident took place around 2-45 a.m. when Abhishek Aggarwal and the woman, who work in a call-centre, were on their way home in Pitampura after attending a party in Gurgaon. At a deserted stretch near C-D Block of Pitampura, a jeep abruptly overtook and pulled up in front of their motorcycle, forcing Abhishek to jam the brakes.

Some young men then got off the jeep and snatched the keys of the motorcycle from Abhishek accusing him of deliberately blocking their way. An altercation ensued following which the miscreants pounced on Abhishek and the woman and started beating them up. They then dragged the woman inside the jeep and drove away.

A terrorised Abhishek called up the Police Control Room, after which a police van reached the spot. “Another police van gave chase to the jeep but the miscreants managed to escape after dumping the woman,” said a police officer, adding that the men had also roughed up the woman in the moving vehicle as she offered tough resistance.

The woman was thrown out of the jeep near Wazirpur depot, from where she hired an auto-rickshaw and reached her house. After Abhishek narrated the entire incident, a police team contacted the woman and recorded her statement.

The police have registered a case of abduction and are trying to identify the miscreants. “From the description provided by the victims, it appears that the occupants of the jeep were criminals out to commit crime,” the police officer said.

The police have contacted their counterparts in neighbouring States seeking their help in tracing the jeep.

In a case reported on March 10, four young men in a Tata Indica car had allegedly misbehaved with a young couple travelling in a Chevrolet Optra and chased them over a long distance following a minor accident in South Delhi. About a dozen cases of road rage have been reported from different parts of the city so far this year.

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