Three more persons were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the cases of assault on Africans which took place in South Delhi's Mehrauli area last week, leaving at least six persons injured.
Three more persons were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the cases of assault on Africans which took place in South Delhi's Mehrauli area last week, leaving at least six persons injured.
The three arrested have been identified as Ranjit (25), Naveen (24) and Vikas (28), all residents of Rajpur Khurd village in Mehrauli.
“With this, all eight accused persons involved in the matter have been arrested,” additional DCP (South) Nupur Prasad said.
While the injured persons — men from Nigeria and Cameroon and women from Uganda, Cameroon and South Africa — had alleged that the attacks were racial, the police had attributed two of the incidents to fallout of arguments over loud music and drinking in public.
Four separate cases of causing hurt, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation were registered in connection with the incidents, which the police claimed had no links with one another.
These incidents took place a week after a Congolese youth was murdered in Vasant Kunj. Two accused of the murder have been arrested, but one person is still at large. A 51-year-old Ola cab driver was allegedly thrashed and robbed of cash on Monday by a group of Africans in the same area.
A 26-year-old woman, Kefa from Rwanda, has been arrested, but five other accused are still absconding. The woman had an expired visa. She was produced in a court on Tuesday which sent her to judicial custody.
