72-year-old auto-rickshaw driver held for molesting, kidnapping minor girl

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DCP (New Delhi district) Amrutha Guguloth stated the accused has been identified as Raghu Nath, a resident of Geeta Colony and has 4 sons and a daughter. “The incident arrived to light on March 17 all-around 6.36 pm after the victim’s dad and mom approached the police and knowledgeable them that their daughter experienced gone missing from in close proximity to Bengali Market. We immediately lodged an FIR and groups were being shaped to trace her,” she claimed.

“We procured CCTV footage of applicable places and started scanning them. We tracked the girl’s movements and found that she experienced boarded an car-rickshaw. With the help of technological surveillance, we managed to locate the locale of the accused near Pacific Shopping mall in East Delhi place from where by we apprehended him and rescued the target. Raghu was hoping to escape with the girl to Uttarakhand’s Haridwar,” she said.

For the duration of questioning, Guguloth reported Raghu disclosed that the woman was taking part in outside the house her residence and he lured her to board his vehicle-rickshaw to go to new locations in Delhi. “He took advantage of the child’s innocence and molested her. Just after molesting her, he made a decision to take her to Haridwar and very first went to his home. He lied and informed his relatives users that he was going to Haridwar for some rituals and remaining his house soon after parking his vehicle-rickshaw at a nearby parking good deal,” she added.