Noida delivery man keeps woman's kid on knifepoint, asks her to strip; arrested

Police said he forcibly entered the house one day while the woman's children were asleep, allegedly held a knife to her son's neck and compelled her to undress.

A 22-year-old delivery man has been arrested in Noida for allegedly coercing a woman to remove her clothes by holding a knife to her child's neck, making obscene videos of her, and circulating them on social media, police said on Friday.

Representative image: Police said the man filmed the incident on his mobile phone and used the video to threaten the woman. (Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

The accused, identified as Gaurav from the Gulistanpur village, used to deliver milk and groceries to the woman's home.

According to the police, he forcibly entered the house one day while the woman's children were asleep, allegedly held a knife to her son's neck and compelled her to undress while he filmed the incident on his mobile phone.

The complainant alleged in her FIR lodged at the Surajpur police station on September 2 that Gaurav repeatedly used the videos to blackmail her, threatening to kidnap her daughter and share the recordings with her husband, who works in Ahmedabad.

She alleged that he eventually shared the clips with her husband and made them viral. Gaurav was arrested from the Surajpur area on Wednesday, and a mobile phone was recovered from him, the police said.