Woman raped by cab driver on way home to Delhi

The woman is a Delhi resident and was heading home after work from a mall on MG Road when the incident took place

A cab driver was booked for allegedly raping a woman, an employee of an apparel brand in a prominent mall on the Mehrauli-Gurugram Road, on the pretext of offering her a lift to her residence, the police said.

The woman was dropped at the Aya Nagar border, the police said. (Representational photo)

The woman is a Delhi resident and was on her way back home on Wednesday night when the incident took place.

Subhash Boken, the spokesperson for Gurugram police, said that she flagged down a cab on MG Road, near a bus stop, and the driver asked her to board the front seat. “The driver asked her to leave the rear seats for other passengers. He parked the car on an isolated stretch and raped her in the cab,” he said.

The police said that the cab driver left her at the Aya Nagar border. The woman approached the police on Thursday and lodged a complaint at the DLF Phase-2 police station.

The woman, in her complaint, said that the driver molested her and when she tried to raise the alarm, he threatened her life.

Boken said the woman had left her workplace around 8pm and boarded the cab around 8.15pm. Before leaving, the driver returned her purse and mobile phone, which she used to call her husband.

Following the complaint, a medical examination was conducted and a case was registered against the unidentified cab driver under sections 376 (rape) and 354 (molestation) of the Indian Penal Code at the DLF Phase-2 police station.