MP: Woman molested in moving rickshaw, three booked

Bhopal | Saturday | 23rd April, 2022

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Bhopal, Apr 23 (PTI) A 20-year-old woman was allegedly molested by her two co-passengers in a shared autorickshaw here, following which police have registered an offence against three persons, including its driver, an official said on Saturday.

The incident occurred on Wednesday night, he said.

"The woman hired a shared auto-rickshaw to reach her home in Ashoka Garden area from the coaching class located in MP Nagar area," Aishbagh police station in-charge Manishraj Singh Bhadoria said.

As per the woman"s complaint, when she hired the rickshaw, there were two female co-passengers in it.

But after the two women got off, two men boarded the rickshaw and they started molesting her soon after the vehicle started moving, he said.

She resisted their attempts and asked the driver to stop the rickshaw, but he kept on driving and took the vehicle into a dark stretch, he added.