High speed chase in South Delhi after students see woman crying for help, driver manages to slip away
The camera showed a car, possibly a Maruti Celerio or a Hyundai i10, in South Extension Part 1 at around 12:35 a.m. The front door was open and it appeared a woman was calling for help, police said.
New Delhi: A woman’s cries for help kept Delhi police on their toes in the early hours of Monday morning. The police control room received a call that a girl was screaming for help from a gray Hyundai i20 car in South Delhi. This led to several PCR vans embarking on a high-speed chase through the streets of Delhi, but the car managed to clear them out.
The dramatic event unfolded around 12:35 p.m. on South Extension Part 1 on Monday, when a group of NEET aspirants spotted a gray Hyundai i20 car carrying two men and two women. Officers quoted the students as saying a man was behind the wheel and a woman was sitting next to him in the front seat. The back seat was occupied by another man and woman.
According to the eyewitnesses, the woman in the back tried to get out of the car, but the man next to her prevented her from getting out of the car and the woman in the front screamed for help. When the Kotla Mubarakpur Police Station officers checked CCTV footage around the spot where the students first saw the car, and the footage seemed to confirm what the students had reported.
“A camera showed a car around 12:35 p.m., possibly a Maruti Celerio or a Hyundai i10. The front door was open and it looked like a woman was calling for help,” a police officer told hindusantimes.com.
However, the cameras had failed to capture the car’s license plate number. However, a PCR car managed to record the number of a similar car, a Haryana registration number. Upon receiving the alert, three PCR vans in the area spotted a car with a similar description and began a high-speed chase from INA towards Safdarjung at around 1:00 am. However, the car managed to give the police the slip by taking the Barapullah overpass.
According to the report in the publication, the police later discovered that the number shared by the 1st PCR was written on a two-wheeler. That is why the police turned their attention to CCTV footage along the route that the car was believed to have taken. However, the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, which are present at the Barapullah flyover at Sewa Nagar and at the DND flyover, did not capture the car.
The police also alerted their colleagues in Noida, where the car was believed to have driven, but the tip turned up nothing.
Police have also contacted hostels and fee-paying guesthouses in the area to find out if a woman is missing, but so far no reports have been made. Police also ruled out kidnapping.
The police believe that there may be a ‘dispute between known persons’.