- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
A day after India’s home minister Amit Shah sought a quick report on the case involving the brutal death of a 20-year-old woman in Delhi in the early hours of New Year’s Day whereby she was dragged by a car for more than an hour, sources have said that the autopsy found that the victim had no injuries her private parts, which might rule out the claim of sexual assault.
The woman got stuck under the car which allegedly hit her two-wheeler and her body was dragged for quite a distance in the capital. According to the vehicle’s occupants, they had not noticed the woman getting tangled in the undercarriage.
The victim’s family alleged that it might not be just a case of hit-and-drag and claimed that she was sexually assaulted which the police denied.
Five men, one of them allegedly a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, were arrested in the wake of the incident. They were charged with ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’, rash driving, and causing death by negligence.
The victim’s autopsy was done by a board of doctors at New Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College and the reports were set to be submitted to the police around 2 pm local time, the sources added.
The investigators also found a key witness, according to an NDTV report. The victim was with a friend when the accident happened. The latter was not injured and fled the scene but the former’s leg got stuck under the car, the channel cited the sources as saying.
It was after the car covered more than 10 kilometres with the woman’s body stuck underneath that one of its occupants noticed one of her arms sticking out at a U-turn. The body fell off when they stopped the vehicle and they fled.
There were people who noticed the body getting dragged under the car and one of them, who alerted patrolling police, tried to bring it to the notice of the car’s passengers and also followed them on a two-wheeler but could not catch up.
Protests were staged by common people outside a police station in Sultanpuri, where the accident took place. Supporters of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party also protested outside the residence of Delhi lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena over the incident.
