Hindustan Times (Delhi)

DOMESTIC HELP ‘MOLESTED’ IN GURUGRAM CONDOMINIU­M

- Leena Dhankhar leenna.dhankhar@hindustant­imes.com HT Correspond­ent htreporter­s@hindustant­imes.com

GURUGRAM: A 19-year-old domestic help was arrested from The Magnolias in DLF 5 on Golf Course Road on Friday night for allegedly molesting and assaulting another help on the premises, police said.

Police said the accused was allegedly in an inebriated state when the incident took place on Thursday night. A case was registered under sections 354 A (sexual harassment), 323 (causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidati­on) of IPC at the women police station at Sector 51.

Usha Kundu, assistant commission­er of police, said, “The accused worked in one of the apartments in the condominiu­m.” He was granted bail on Saturday after being produced to city court, police said.

The 30-year-old complainan­t works as a domestic help in one of the apartments. On Thursday, around 9pm, when she was walking her dog, the accused allegedly approached her and said that he loved her. She told the police that she ignored him and kept walking but he caught hold of her.

“He touched me inappropri­ately, I got scared and shouted for help. Security guards rushed to the spot but he fled. When I reached near my tower, he suddenly appeared and started abusing me and assaulted me. I fell on the ground and shouted for help again,” the victim told police. Kundu said the victim did not know him and he was identified only after people at the condominiu­m scanned the CCTV footage.

DLF officials couldn’t be reached for a comment. NEWDELHI: A 41-year-old Nigerian national and his 24-year-old Indian woman friend were arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly cheating job aspirants by promising them employment in foreign countries.

The two were wanted in a cheating case in which they had duped a woman from Dwarka of around ₹8 lakh after offering her the post of an operation manager in an oil and gas company in Malaysia on a monthly salary of ₹2.5 lakh.

Deputy commission­er of police (Dwarka) Anto Alphonse said the Nigerian Imasaun Henry Omorogby and friend Sheela Dey alias Priya Dass from Hyderabad were caught from outside Hyderabad airport on August 14 following informatio­n that Sheela was returning from Bangkok and she would meet Henry at the airport.

“Two laptops, seven mobile phones, five cheque books, 27 plastic cards, four forged PAN cards and as many voter identity cards along with ₹1 lakh in cash were seized from the duo,” said Alphonse.

DCP Alphonse said the arrests came following probe into a cheating case filed by Vaishnavi Balasubram­anium from Delhi’s Dwarka. The complainan­t told police that in September last year she had received an email with a job offer in Malaysia. She responded to the email and forwarded her personal biodata and other requisite documents.

“The racketeers tricked her into depositing a total of ₹8.05 lakh in their bank account, saying the money was required for obtaining work permit, immigratio­n clearance and for other processing fee. To win her confidence, they also sent her a fake job offer letter of the company,” said the DCP.

The woman became suspicious when in February this year she received a call from one Madhuri, who identified herself an employee of the Union ministry of finance, and demanded ₹65,000 for releasing her documents. She contacted the ministry and upon verificati­on found that no employee called Madhuri worked there.

A case was registered on her complaint and investigat­ions taken up. During the probe, investigat­ors collected informatio­n about the email addresses through which the emails were sent and also of the bank account in which the money was deposited. Police found that the email address used by the account holder was tagged with one Bhaskar Reddy on a social media account.

“We also found Sheela Dey’s photograph on social media and gathered informatio­n about her through technical surveillan­ce. We also scanned her social media account. She had updated her status as “Going [to] Bangkok” and uploaded a photograph clicked at Hyderabad airport on August 8,” said Alphonse.

Investigat­ors collected her travel details and learnt that she would land at the airport on August 14.

“We laid a trap and caught her with her Nigerian associate,” said an investigat­or.

 ?? HT PHOTO ?? Nigerian Imasaun Henry Omorogby and friend Sheela Dey alias Priya Dass after their arrest.
HT PHOTO Nigerian Imasaun Henry Omorogby and friend Sheela Dey alias Priya Dass after their arrest.

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