E-rickshaw driver arrested for alleged knife attack on woman in Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi
New Delhi: An e-rickshaw driver in North Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tila area was arrested on Saturday for allegedly attacking a woman with a knife at his residence, where police suspect he attempted to sexually assault her. The accused has been identified as Kannu Dayadham Naganshi, 31.
The Indian Express said that the police received a PCR call about 5 a.m. The caller stated that a woman had been attacked and her clothing were torn. Responding cops discovered her unresponsive, with injuries to her head and face. She was brought to the Trauma Centre and then referred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital for further treatment. Her statement is yet to be recorded. A medical examination for sexual assault has been conducted, and an FIR has been registered under sections related to attempt to murder.
Naganshi was traced through CCTV footage and local enquiries, while the police revealed that he had previously been arrested in 2013 in a rape and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case in the Civil Lines area.
During questioning, Naganshi told police he had picked up the woman from Gate No. 2 of Vidhan Sabha Metro Station on Friday. He had taken her to his home in his e-rickshaw and allegedly offered her alcohol before assaulting her. When she resisted, he reportedly beat her, threw her outside the house and fled.
Eyewitness accounts from the Metro station and nearby residents are said to support the sequence of events described by the police. A case under Section 109(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered.
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Mathura boat capsize tragedy: Death toll climbs to 13
Mathura (UP)(PTI): With the recovery of two more bodies on Sunday, the death toll in the boat capsize incident in the Yamuna river in Mathura has climbed to 13, officials said on Sunday.
Search for three more missing persons is underway.
Superintendent of Police (Rural) Suresh Chandra Rawat said renewed search efforts led to the recovery of the body of a college student, identified as Dinki Bansal, near Devraha Baba Ghat and that of a man identified as Rishabh Sharma approximately 3 km away from the accident site.
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon when a boat carrying over two dozen tourists, primarily from Punjab, hit a floating drum of a pontoon bridge and capsized near Kesi Ghat in Vrindavan.
Most of the victims were from Jagraon and Dugri areas of Ludhiana district.
Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) along with the district administration and local police were actively engaged in the search for the missing pilgrims.
However, strong currents of the Yamuna river and the significant depth of the water at the ghats are proving a hindrance.
Circle Officer (Mant) Sandeep Singh said the Yamuna river stretch extending from Keshi Ghat to Gokul Barrage has been divided into seven sectors.
The search for the missing individuals will now be conducted within this specific 20-square-km zone. A Station House Officer (SHO) has been designated as the in-charge for each sector.
Acting on the orders of the DIG (Agra Range), seven SHOs will oversee operations across the seven sectors of river Yamuna.
Giving details about the operation, Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue) Pankaj Kumar Verma, citing NDRF officials, on Saturday had said although the search for the missing persons is currently focused within a 14-km radius from the spot where the boat had capsized, there is a possibility that they may have been swept much further downstream.
SHO of Vrindavan police station Sanjay Pandey said boat operator Pappu was arrested late on Friday night.
He is accused of failing to provide life jackets to passengers before allowing them to board the boat, and operating the boat at high speed. This resulted in the boat losing control and colliding with a pontoon bridge's drum, which led to the accident, officials said.
Police have registered a case and also arrested the contractor, Narayan Sharma, responsible for the repair work on the pontoon bridge.
Rawat said that on Friday evening, police registered a case under section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the boatman Pappu (alias Dauji) and Sharma, and subsequently arrested them.
According to the case details, Pappu's boat did not have any safety equipment or provisions whatsoever.
Moreover, despite repeated pleas from pilgrims, Pappu operated the boat at high speed. By the time he realised the danger upon approaching the pontoons of the bridge, it was already too late.
Consequently, after colliding with a pontoon drum, the boat lost control and capsized. It has also come to light that he is among those operators who have not obtained the requisite license to operate a boat.
Sharma was carrying out the work of dismantling and reassembling the pontoon bridge without providing any prior notification.
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