Six men molest 23-yr-old, beat up mom for resisting
New Delhi: A year after a young woman was murdered by a stalker in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat, another one in the same locality was thrashed by six men on Sunday.
The 23-year-old had lodged an FIR against the men on Saturday for molesting her at a nearby park where she had been strolling with her sister in the morning. But all of them were released on bail the same day. That night at 11pm, the men gathered outside her house and started calling out her name. But she didn’t respond on her mother’s advice. They left after a while.
On Sunday evening, when she was returning from a nearby shop, she found the men waiting for her outside her house. “When I tried to go past them, they started passing lewd remarks and hurled abuses at me. When I told them to leave, they threatened to throw acid on me and kill my entire family if I didn’t withdraw the complaint. I rushed inside and told my mother about it. After a while, the men returned with belts and rods. They dragged me out of my house and thrashed me,” the woman said.
When her mother rushed out to her aid, she was beaten up too. “The men were drunk. They molested me and also grabbed my mother. They then hit us with stones,” she said, adding that the men had been harassing her for over a month. A neighbour who came out to help the two women was also thrashed, the woman said.