Trainee ACP rides to the rescue of abducted girl

NEW DElHI, July 20: This story comes right out of a Bollywood potboiler: Four youths in a Maruti car attempt to abduct a girl early this ...

NEW DElHI, July 20: This story comes right out of a Bollywood potboiler: Four youths in a Maruti car attempt to abduct a girl early this morning. She manages to jump off the vehicle. An ACP still under training gives chase on his motorcycle. Failing to catch up with them, he heads back to where the girl is and shortly after, the miscreants also return to the spot, only to be arrested.

According to the police, a Tibetan girl, Nikki, a resident of Majnu ka Tila, had taken a lift in a white Maruti car from ISBT around 1.15 am to go to the French Embassy. Sources, however, claim that they are not sure why the girl was heading there at such an odd hour.

Once she was inside the vehicle, the four youths allegedly tried to molest her. The girl reportedly resisted their attempts and jumped down from the moving car after managing to open a car door near Rajghat.

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She spotted a police motorcycle and raised an alarm. The ACP on the bike, posted as the in-charge of the Kamla market area, asked the policemen riding pillion to take care of the girl while he chased the car which was headed to the trans-Yamuna area.

ACP Avichal lost track of the car in Laxmi Nagar and returned to the where the girl was. It was while the police team were questioning the girl that the car returned. Nikki reportedly alerted the policemen who formed a human chain if front of the car.

The four men were arrested on charges of wrongful confinement, abduction and molestation. They have been identified as Raj Kumar, Babu, Ram Chander and Babu Khan. ACP Avichal then took the injured to the LNJP hospital where a medical examination was conducted.

The car used by the assailants was reportedly stolen from the Parliament Street area last morning. While two of the assailants are from UP, the rest are from Delhi. The police are still not sure why the assailants came back to pick up the girl when they were aware that the police were after them.

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