CCTV footage shows rape victim jumping off balcony, asking for help

Two days after a Nepalese woman was a gangraped by five BPO employees in Delhi’s Pandav Nagar, the police have recovered a CCTV camera footage that shows her jumping off the first floor and asking passers-by for help.

The police have arrested and sent the five men, all BPO employees, to jail. They are looking for a man named Kundan (earlier identified as Vikas), who was a link between the woman and the five men and who had allegedly taken her to the flat.

In the 17-second video clip, the woman is seen walking without clothes as some passers-by stand and watch. The footage shows two men standing outside a building and looking towards the first floor balcony. The woman is then seen jumping from the building and landing on the stairs. One of the men helps her stand on her feet while the other man walks across the road. The woman is then seen seeking help from a passer-by. The video clip shows two cars halting for a few seconds and leaving without offering any help. She then stops an auto rickshaw and leaves.

Meanwhile, one of the two men called the police control room and the police’s quick reaction team caught up with the auto rickshaw soon after it had left. The police said that by then, a woman in the neighbourhood had given the victim clothes.

The woman was taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri hospital as she had suffered injuries in her legs because of the fall. In her statement, she accused the five BPO employees of allegedly thrashing and confining her in their flat, forcing her to consume alcohol and then raping her. Police said the woman had jumped off the building to escape the torture.

The five men, identified as Naveen Kumar, Prateek Kumar, Vikas Mehra, Sarvjeet and Lakshya, have been arrested.