CHENNAI: The city police have launched a search for an autorickshaw driver who attempted to sexually abuse a woman passenger who was travelling in his vehicle from Kilpauk to Chennai Central railway station.
Police said the driver tried to molest her after taking a detour and stopping the vehicle at a dimly-lit area on Allikulam Link Road on Sunday.
After the woman raised an alarm, the autorickshaw driver escaped from the place leaving the woman behind. Based on a complaint from Nithya (name changed), an employee of a medical shop in Kundrathur, the Periamet police launched an investigation. They later forwarded the complaint to the Vepery all-women police station for further inquiry.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that Nithya, a native of Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh, went to meet a friend at Kilpauk on Sunday evening. On her way back, she boarded an autorickshaw to Chennai Central railway station. During the journey as woman was speaking to one of her friends over phone, the driver asked her if he could take an interior road for a shortcut to the station. The woman agreed as she was in hurry.
The autorickshaw driver took a detour through Periamet and Allikulam Link Road. Suddenly, he stopped the vehicle at a lonely and dimly-lit place and tried to sexually abuse the woman.
The woman cried for help and jumped out of the vehicle in an attempt to run away. Scared, the autorickshaw driver threw away her belonging on the road and sped away. The woman ran till the Periamet Mosque junction and narrated her ordeal to traffic police personnel there.
Police then helped her continue with her journey and asked her to appear before police when she returned to the city.
Meanwhile, police accepted Nithya's request to act on her complaint after she returned to the city.
However, they collected CCTV camera footage from the spot of the crime to trace the accused autorickshaw driver. Further investigations are on.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
Police said the driver tried to molest her after taking a detour and stopping the vehicle at a dimly-lit area on Allikulam Link Road on Sunday.
After the woman raised an alarm, the autorickshaw driver escaped from the place leaving the woman behind. Based on a complaint from Nithya (name changed), an employee of a medical shop in Kundrathur, the Periamet police launched an investigation. They later forwarded the complaint to the Vepery all-women police station for further inquiry.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that Nithya, a native of Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh, went to meet a friend at Kilpauk on Sunday evening. On her way back, she boarded an autorickshaw to Chennai Central railway station. During the journey as woman was speaking to one of her friends over phone, the driver asked her if he could take an interior road for a shortcut to the station. The woman agreed as she was in hurry.
The autorickshaw driver took a detour through Periamet and Allikulam Link Road. Suddenly, he stopped the vehicle at a lonely and dimly-lit place and tried to sexually abuse the woman.
The woman cried for help and jumped out of the vehicle in an attempt to run away. Scared, the autorickshaw driver threw away her belonging on the road and sped away. The woman ran till the Periamet Mosque junction and narrated her ordeal to traffic police personnel there.
Police then helped her continue with her journey and asked her to appear before police when she returned to the city.
Meanwhile, police accepted Nithya's request to act on her complaint after she returned to the city.
However, they collected CCTV camera footage from the spot of the crime to trace the accused autorickshaw driver. Further investigations are on.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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