In what we call an inhumane incident, an 86-year old woman was allegedly raped by a man in a not so busy area in southwest Delhi's Chhawla area, said police.
The accused has been identified as a 37-year-old Sonu, a plumber is a resident of Rewla Khanpur. However, the accused has been detained by the police.
Reportedly, the incident took place on the evening of Monday when the elderly woman was on her way to a nearby village. On her way back, she met the accused who offered her lift on his two-wheeler, a senior police officer said.
Nonetheless, his false pretensions to drop her safely at her destination were exposed when he raped the octogenarian woman in an isolated area.
Deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka) Santosh Kumar Meena said, "A case under section 376 (rape) of IPC was registered at Chhawla Police Station and the accused was arrested."
On the other hand, medical examination of the victim had been conducted and her statement has been recorded, he added.
The woman is said to be stable now and has been discharged from the hospital.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) termed it as an "extremely disturbing" case.
According to the woman, she was waiting for the milkman at around 5 pm on Monday when the perpetrator came and told ger that the milkman would not come that day and that he will take her to the place where she could get milk, the DCW said.
He took the woman to a farm instead and then brutally raped her, it said. "The woman kept crying and pleading that she was of his grandmother's age. The perpetrator assaulted her brutally when she tried to resist him and raped her," said DCW.
Local villagers rushed to the spot on hearing the woman’s cries. They caught hold of the perpetrator and called the police, it said. The woman was bleeding and in extreme trauma. The locals called her son and the police later took her for medical examination, the DCW said. Her medical examination report reveals several injuries and bruises on her body, it said.
DCW chief Swati Maliwal and panel member Vandana Singh met the survivor on Tuesday. “From a six-month-old girl to a 90-year-old woman, no one is safe in Delhi. The kind of trauma this woman had to face clearly indicates that the perpetrators of these crimes are not humans. I met the woman today, she is an extremely courageous woman. We will ensure she gets justice. This case needs to be fast-tracked and justice should be served within six months,” Maliwal said