Delhi: Stalker, father arrested for harassing woman

A father and son were arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman in Delhi after claims of stalking, with video evidence showing the incident.

Published on: Feb 15, 2026, 04:42:04 IST

By Jignasa Sinha

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A 21-year-old man and his father were arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting a 24-year-old woman in outernorth Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy the previous day, police said on Saturday.

Police identified the stalker as Ravi Ahmed and his father as Md Kadir, 52. Police said an alleged video of the incident, which was uploaded to social media on Friday, shows a man shouting and screaming at a woman before setting a bike on fire.

“We found that Ahmed and the woman, who works at a private company, are neighbours. The woman alleged that Ahmed had been harassing and stalking her because the man was earlier involved in a fight with her brother, Hariya,” a police officer said.

DCP (outernorth) Hareshwar Swami said, “The woman was walking towards her home at 6.30pm on Friday when the two men “wrongfully restrained” her and then assaulted her, leaving her injured. The woman was saved by passersby, who also took her to a nearby hospital.”

Police said a case under BNS sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 126(2) (wrongfully restrained) and 3(5) (criminal act done by several persons) was registered at Shahbad Dairy on Friday. Section 74 (assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty) of the BNS was also added later.

“No communal angle has surfaced so far. Initial investigation shows that it was a quarrel between neighbours” the DCP said.

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Jignasa Sinha
Jignasa Sinha is a Special Correspondent at Hindustan Times in New Delhi. With more than six years of reporting experience, she covers crime and policing in the national capital. Her beats also include Delhi prisons, the Delhi Fire Services and Delhi courts, while she regularly reports on gender, labour and social justice. Over the course of her career, Jignasa has reported on major criminal investigations, international crime syndicates, high-profile cyber fraud cases, law-and-order developments, protests, disasters and public institutions. Her reporting combines breaking news with in-depth, long form, human interest stories that examine the human impact of public policy, policing and the criminal justice system. In addition to reporting for the newspaper, she contributes to the Hindustan Times website and app, and plays an active role in coordinating on-ground coverage of major developments and breaking news across Delhi. Before joining Hindustan Times, Jignasa worked at The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, where she spent five years covering crime, Delhi airport, courts and health. She began her journalism career as an intern at an AI magazine in Bengaluru while pursuing her postgraduate diploma in multimedia journalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media.Read More

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