Inebriated man flashes scribe on bus in Delhi, held

The bus was packed but no one helped me even restrain the man. One man wanted me to stop hitting him. There was just one passenger who tried to help me, but that person later refused to be a witness. THE SURVIVOR, in her police complaint

NEW DELHI: A drunk man allegedly flashed a 26-year-old television journalist inside a packed bus passing through south Delhi on Tuesday night, the police said on Wednesday.

The woman was returning from south Delhi’s Kapashera to her home in Sangam Vihar after work and had boarded the cluster bus, operating on route number 517, when the alleged crime happened around 9.15pm on Tuesday.

She alleged that she caught the man red-handed after which she beat him with her slippers, restrained him inside the bus and alerted the police control room. “The bus was packed but no one even tried to help me restrain the man. One man wanted me to stop hitting him. There was just one passenger who tried to help me, but that person later refused to be a witness,” the woman alleged in her complaint.

The man was taken into custody by the staff of the police control room van that intercepted the bus near Andheria Modh, near Chhattarpur in south Delhi.

The man who works for a tent operator, was arrested and booked for molestation, deputy commissioner of police (south) Vijay Kumar said.

Outlining the incident, the woman said, “I was sitting on a seat reserved for women. The man approached me, stood very close and began staring at me and fondling himself.”

The woman said she stared back at the man, in a bid to ward him off him, but he responded by allegedly unzipping himself and flashing her— this happened somewhere between Vasant Kunj and Chhatarpur.

It was then that she decided to take him on.

“When I began beating him up, he tried to zip up his pants. But I ensured that my fellow passengers noticed his behaviour,” the woman said.

Women in the national capital regularly complain of sexual harassment on public transport or in public places — in most cases, women are allegedly groped, flashed and/or masturbated on.

In February this year, a middle-aged man was caught masturbating while seated next to a 23-year-old woman on a bus in the national Capital.

The woman, a student of Delhi University , reported the matter to police and also submitted a video of the incident as evidence.

In another incident in April 2018, an alleged serial sexual offender was arrested for masturbating in front of women after ringing their door bells in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, police said.. NEW DELHI: A first information report (FIR) registered by police about a road accident is sufficient to award compensation to the victim or the family even if no formal claim petition is filed, the Supreme Court ruled last week, in a move that could significantly benefit survivors or the families of the victims that aren’t adequately informed about the procedure to be followed after an accident.

In an order that will benefit claimants in motor accident compensation cases, a bench of justices AM Sapre and Indu Malhotra said the claims tribunal is empowered to treat the report of accidents as an application under the law. The Supreme Court bench said that the law providing compensation in motor accident cases is a beneficial legislation aimed to give solace to victims who either suffer injury or die before their time.

The court ruling related to an appeal filed by a woman whose husband died on June 3, 2003 after the bus he was travelling in was hit by a speeding truck in Rajasthan.

The man was 25-years-old and died at the spot. However, the order is likely to have far-reaching implications.

In this particular case, both the tribunal and the state high court refused to award her compensation because she could not establish the accident and also hadn’t filed a proper claim application. “We are of the considered opinion that the Claims Tribunal and the High Court (Rajasthan) were not justified in dismissing the appellants’ claim petition,” SC said, awarding her compensation of around ₹11 lakh, to be jointly paid by the insurer and the owner or driver of the offending truck. The bench also said interest at the rate of 6% from the date of the claim petition till its realization would be paid.

The insurer was given three months to deposit the money with the claims tribunal.

The bench also noted that the law casts a duty on the offending vehicle’s owner to forward the copy of the FIR to the claims tribunal and the insurer of the vehicle, provided this person has a copy of the FIR. NEWDELHI:CHIEF minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged on Wednesday that the chilli power attack on him at the Delhi secretariat was an attempt on his life and part of a “larger conspiracy by other parties” while deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership of planning a “string of attacks to kill” the CM.

The BJP, in response, swung sharply the other way, contending that the attack was “stage managed” by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

“I have been attacked four times in the last two years, and it is no minor issue. Clearly, these attacks aren’t taking place, but are being ordered because we [AAP] have become an obstacle for them [other parties]. They want to kill me,” Kejriwal said in Sonepat, Haryana.

A west Delhi resident, Anil Kumar Sharma was arrested after he allegedly tried to throw chilli powder at Kejriwal outside his office at the Delhi Secretariat on Tuesday. He told the police that he had gone to ask for money for his ailing mother, but the police were unable to trace his mother.

The police, which had initially not acknowledged the attack and said that the chilli-powder packet had fallen, said on Wednesday that Sharma had been involved in another incident at the secretariat in 2017. On that occasion, they said, he broke a glass window in the building.

Addressing a press conference in the Capital, Sisodia alleged that the string of attacks on Kejriwal were part of a conspiracy. He also alleged that the attacker was a BJP worker, and that the leadership of the party were privy to the attack.

“They [BJP] tried their best to stop Delhi government’s works. They used CBI [Central Bureau of Investigation] against us, intimidated the officers and finally when everything else failed, they have started planning attacks on Arvind Kejriwal to get him killed,” Sisodia said. “Delhi police has become BJP police and are acting as per their plans,” he added.

Sisodia also accused Delhi’s Lieutenant-governor for failing to ensure the security of the elected CM. “Even 24 hours after the attack, the L-G, who controls law-and-order in Delhi, has not reacted. This means that he also knew about it,” Sisodia alleged.

The L-G’S office did not respond to requests for a comment on Sisodia’s allegation. A Union home ministry official declined to comment. AAP workers on Wednesday protested outside BJP headquarters on Deen Dayal Updahyay Marg.