Driver arrested for assault on 4th anniversary of Nirbhaya case

New Delhi: Police in New Delhi said yesterday they have arrested a driver for allegedly raping a woman in his car, as the Indian capital marks the fourth anniversary of the fatal gang-rape of a student. The woman told police that she was waiting for a bus on Wednesday night when the man offered her a lift and she got into his car.
"We have recorded her statement. She has told us that the driver raped her in his car," Rekha, the police officer handling the case, said..
"We have arrested the driver," said the officer, who goes by only one name, adding that police have launched an investigation into the case and seized the car.  Rekha said the suspect was a driver for a member of India's elite paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force.
The driver reportedly later abandoned the vehicle and fled to a friend's house where the police arrested him on Thursday morning. He will be produced in court later yesterday — four years to the day since a student was gang-raped on a moving bus in an incident that unleashed global outrage about attacks on women in India. The incident sparked mass street protests in Delhi and led to tougher laws against rapists.