GURGAON: A passerby helped rescue two minor girls, sisters aged 8 and 6, from an auto driver who had kidnapped them and driven to a forested area in Manesar, where he forced himself on the older girl.Later, as police pursued him, the assailant jumped from KMP flyover in Pachgaon. He suffered fractures in both his legs and was taken into custody.
The auto driver, 29-year-old Sarvesh, is married and has a daughter, police said. He lives alone in Kasan while his family is in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur. Police said that the sisters were among several children playing at a ground in Manesar when the accused stopped there around 5pm last Saturday.
He zeroed in on the sisters and walked up to them with chocolates and other eatables he had bought, indicating he had planned it.There, he struck up a conversation with the girls and asked them if they wanted to go on a ride around the ground with him. “When they agreed, the accused took the girls to an isolated place and sexually assaulted the older girl while the younger sister was in the auto. A local happened to be passing by, spotted the auto driver and raised the alarm. The accused fled the spot, leaving his auto at the spot,” a police officer said. The passerby immediately alerted the police control room, following which a patrolling team, Manesar police, and a crime branch team reached the spot. Police informed the girls’ family and took them for a medical examination. Multiple teams were formed. On Monday, the Manesar crime branch traced the accused using online and offline intelligence. “Sarvesh was preparing to flee from Gurgaon and was waiting for a bus on KMP Expressway. A police team found him just in time. Seeing them, he panicked and jumped from the flyover. He is undergoing treatment in a local hospital as he suffered a fracture on his legs after he jumped from KMP flyover after seeing the cops. This is a heinous crime, and the accused should get stringent punishment,” a police officer said. Sarvesh has been named in an FIR filed under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act at Manesar police station. While there were no major physical injuries, both girls are undergoing counselling, sources said.
