E-rickshaw passenger attacked and robbed

New Delhi: A woman traveling in an e-rickshaw near Delhi’s Shahdara flyover was attacked and robbed on April 29, according to police. The suspect, Chand Hasan, a drug addict with a previous criminal record, was arrested.

He had a history of five counts of theft, burglary, trespassing and causing hurt.

Namita Jain, an assistant professor at Digambar Jain College in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, was returning home when the attack took place.

According to her husband, a person, who was riding as a co-passenger, asked her rickshaw driver to stop and then attacked Namita with a knife while taking away her jewelry, including a gold ring and an artificial necklace.

The rickshaw driver took Namita to a nearby police station and she was later taken to hospital with a deep arm injury that required 18 stitches. After this, her husband filed an FIR.