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A 23-year-old pupil escaped an alleged rape effort successful Bengaluru’s Whitefield connected June 2.
The incidental took spot successful the limits of the Whitefield Police Station astir 3.30 a.m. The pistillate was returning to her PG accommodation aft stepping retired for beverage erstwhile the accused allegedly began pursuing her.
According to the police, the accused identified arsenic Saifal Mondal, 27, waylaid the pistillate connected the roadworthy and allegedly tried to resistance her to the different broadside of the thoroughfare with the volition of sexually assaulting her. The unfortunate raised an alarm, drafting the attraction of adjacent residents.
As neighbours rushed to the spot, the accused fled. The pistillate subsequently approached the Whitefield Police Station and lodged a complaint.
Acting swiftly, the constabulary registered an FIR and launched a hunt operation. By the aforesaid night, the constabulary traced and arrested Mondal, a rag picker who frequented the area. He was aboriginal produced earlier a tribunal and remanded successful judicial custody.
Investigators said the accused allegedly targeted the pistillate aft noticing that she was alone.
