{"id":14710,"date":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/ragpicker-woman-sexually-harassed-while-sleeping-on-footpath-in-delhi-accused-arrested-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:50:08","slug":"ragpicker-woman-sexually-harassed-while-sleeping-on-footpath-in-delhi-accused-arrested-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/ragpicker-woman-sexually-harassed-while-sleeping-on-footpath-in-delhi-accused-arrested-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragpicker woman sexually harassed while sleeping on footpath in Delhi; accused arrested | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131412488,imgsize-4611835.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">NEW DELHI: A ragpicker woman sleeping on a footpath in Delhi\u2019s Palam area was allegedly sexually harassed by a passerby, police said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/> The incident occurred on May 24, 2026.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/> The accused, a resident of the Palam area who works at a tent house.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> According to officials, a PCR call was received on May 24 reporting that a man had been touching a woman inappropriately on the footpath.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/> Police reached the spot and found a ragpicker woman present. However, the woman told police that nothing had happened and that she did not wish to take any action.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/> A search was launched for the accused based on the PCR call, and he was later traced and arrested.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/> A case under Sections 74, 75 and 296 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">(The victim&#8217;s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/ragpicker-woman-sexually-harassed-while-sleeping-on-footpath-in-delhi-accused-arrested\/articleshow\/131412261.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A ragpicker woman sleeping on a footpath in Delhi\u2019s Palam area was allegedly sexually harassed by a passerby, police said. The incident occurred on May 24, 2026. The accused, a resident of the Palam area who works at a tent house. According to officials, a PCR call was received on May 24 reporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}