Lucknow: Harassed by driver, woman jumps off moving autorickshaw, injured
TNN | Mar 16, 2019, 08:01 IST
Picture for representational purpose only.LUCKNOW: A woman jumped off a moving autorickshaw on being harassed by its driver in broad daylight in Gomtinagar on Friday noon, sustaining a serious head injury.
The woman, in her early twenties, had boarded the autorickshaw from Jiamau for Ambedkar park at around 1pm. As the auto reached Lohia Path, she noticed that the driver was looking at her in the rear view mirror, and started making vulgar gestures on establishing eye contact. She changed her position but he readjusted the mirror and continued leering at her.
He continued harassing her and made obscene gestures. The woman then asked the driver to behave and then told him to stop the auto but he accelerated. The woman panicked and decided to jump off to ensure her safety.
The woman leapt to the edge of the seat in her bid to jump. The driver got terrified and slowed down, allowing her to jump off and tried to speed away. As the woman shrieked in pain on sustaining injuries in fall, passersby stopped the auto after a chase. In the meantime, the woman called up her family and informed them about the incident and her location.
Passersby caught the driver and thrashed him and tore off his clothes on finding him drunk. Some people alerted police following which three constables arrived at the spot but they couldn’t control the mob. People kept thrashing the driver, overturned the autorickshaw and tried to set it ablaze.
They dragged him towards the police station while raising slogans against police.
Meanwhile, more policemen arrived and tried to take the woman to hospital but her parents came and took her.
SHO Gomtinagar Ram Surat Sonkar said that the driver was arrested while two men, Ravi Shankar and Abhishek Yadav, were detained.
“The driver, identified as Keshav Kumar (24), a native of Gonda, was found drunk,” he added.
The woman, in her early twenties, had boarded the autorickshaw from Jiamau for Ambedkar park at around 1pm. As the auto reached Lohia Path, she noticed that the driver was looking at her in the rear view mirror, and started making vulgar gestures on establishing eye contact. She changed her position but he readjusted the mirror and continued leering at her.
He continued harassing her and made obscene gestures. The woman then asked the driver to behave and then told him to stop the auto but he accelerated. The woman panicked and decided to jump off to ensure her safety.
The woman leapt to the edge of the seat in her bid to jump. The driver got terrified and slowed down, allowing her to jump off and tried to speed away. As the woman shrieked in pain on sustaining injuries in fall, passersby stopped the auto after a chase. In the meantime, the woman called up her family and informed them about the incident and her location.
Passersby caught the driver and thrashed him and tore off his clothes on finding him drunk. Some people alerted police following which three constables arrived at the spot but they couldn’t control the mob. People kept thrashing the driver, overturned the autorickshaw and tried to set it ablaze.
They dragged him towards the police station while raising slogans against police.
Meanwhile, more policemen arrived and tried to take the woman to hospital but her parents came and took her.
SHO Gomtinagar Ram Surat Sonkar said that the driver was arrested while two men, Ravi Shankar and Abhishek Yadav, were detained.
“The driver, identified as Keshav Kumar (24), a native of Gonda, was found drunk,” he added.
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