NEW DELHI: A sub-inspector of Delhi Police has been arrested for allegedly harassing and stalking at least three girls in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka in a single day.
The accused cop has been identified as Puneet Grewal, who was posted in the office of a DCP in the traffic unit and has been arrested by the Dwarka (south)PS.
Grewal, earlier posted in Dwarka and with Special Cell, was allegedly not in uniform while committing the crimes and was driving a car without papers. Cops tracked him down using CCTV footage and technical surveillance. A proposal for his dismissal has been initiated, a source said.
Police are probing if he had stalked and molested more girls. There are reports that he may be behind a few other incidents in which FIRs have been lodged against unknown persons in different police stations in the city.
One of the three complainants, who is 17 years old, alleged that she had gone cycling near a Metro station on October 17 when the accused followed her and passed lewd comments. He made obscene gestures and flashed at her, she alleged.
The girl filed a complaint and also posted the incident on social media following which the SI was tracked and arrested. He was reportedly drunk and had gone to meet a friend in the area, police said.
Social media outrage led the cops to discover more complaints of similar nature where a man in the same Baleno car without registration had harassed the girls. Subsequently, FIRs were filed and he was nabbed.