3 min readNew DelhiJun 25, 2026 11:43 AM IST
First published on: Jun 24, 2026 at 04:23 PM IST
Around 4.15 am on Monday, cab driver Bashu Kumar Singh allegedly kidnapped a 10-year-old girl sleeping on the pavement near a Metro station in South Delhi, raped and killed her, and then dumped her body in the Aravalli forest along the Gurgaon-Faridabad Road.
Sources said the 29-year-old then headed to the house of the cab owner in Gurgaon.
Near the home, a source said, he stopped to change his clothes and clean the car. The cab owner, a 26-year-old, had started his firm just months ago, and the white Wagon R — that Bashu drove — was his first car.
Around 4 am, Bashu, according to the investigators, first stopped near a Metro station in the Mehrauli area. “When he stopped the car, he was probably intoxicated,” said an officer.
The area is lined with temporary shelters — made of tarpaulin shades — where the homeless people spent the night.
Some don’t even have that — they are forced to sleep on the footpath. One of the families sleeping in the area was that 10-year-old girl’s family, who Bashu allegedly abducted.
Sources said he then headed towards Gurgaon, crossing the Mandi village, which is dotted with dilapidated residential buildings and shops. The route leads to a vast stretch of farmhouses, including some upscale ones made by DLF.
The stretch has street lamps, but the farmhouses, and some abandoned patches of forest land cast a dark shadow once the night falls.
It was near one of these forests—about 7 km from where he allegedly kidnapped her— that he stopped the car and allegedly raped and then murdered the child, sources said.
As the Mandi road ends, about 200 m away is the Gurgaon-Faridabad road where a three-km stretch of Aravali forest runs alongside.
Most of the forests have some construction work ongoing, with high-rises on the other side. But some patches are empty lots of wild shrubs, with no street light to pierce the darkness. It’s here where Bashu allegedly dumped the body.
Around 8 am, he headed straight to the cab owner’s house, about 3 km from Gurgaon’s upscale Golf Course Road area. When he reached close to the house, he cleaned the car, said investigators. “But then he suddenly got a booking for a drop to Nangloi in Outer Delhi. He picked up the customer and headed towards the location. After the drop, while he was in Vikaspuri, he was arrested by the Delhi Police, who were on his heels by then, at 11 am,” said the source.
The source also said during questioning, Bashu allegedly claimed he was ‘frustrated’ that he was not getting any rides that night. When he reached the Mehrauli area, he found the girl sleeping and decided to abduct her.
Police said the vehicle — a white Wagon R with a commercial plate — was traced using CCTV and registration details. By 11 am on Monday, the accused was taken into custody.
Police said the suspect allegedly attempted to snatch a service revolver from an escorting officer and fired at the party while being taken to the crime scene.
He was injured in the leg when police returned fire. He was subsequently admitted to hospital and a separate case for assault on a police officer has been registered.
Accused cab driver Bhasu Kumar Singh. (Enhanced using AI) 
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