Attack, chase and four FIRs later, East Delhi sisters arrested

Two sisters, who allegedly beat up a 58-year-old security guard at their home in East Delhi’s Vasundhara enclave weeks ago, were arrested on Saturday after fresh commotion and a dramatic sequence of events, when they assaulted a senior retired police officer . beat his daughters and wife, rammed their car into a police van, tried to run over a police officer and residents, towed a scooter as they fled towards Noida and tried to shake off pursuing officers for almost two kilometers before being detained.

A video recording shows how the sisters drive their car into a group of residents and police officers. (HT photo)

Charvi Jain (23) and Bhavya Jain (21), residents of Anekant Apartment, were arrested late on Saturday night and charged with a series of charges, including attempt to murder.

The two women were in the news just a few weeks ago. On September 10, HT reported that the two had locked Akhilesh Kumar Dubey, a security guard in the building, in their house, scorched him with a hot iron and hit him with a badminton racket after calling him to report a problem with the water supply problem.

When police personnel arrived at the scene to investigate the incident, the Jain sisters locked themselves in the house for over a week and refused to participate in the police investigation. The police finally applied for a bail order on October 1. The Delhi court is yet to rule on this application

The chaos started on Friday after the two women allegedly honked incessantly and disturbed their neighbors, including former Uttar Pradesh Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Kumar Sharma, a cancer patient, who filed one of the four first information reports against the sisters.

In his statement to the police, Sharma said he was sleeping when he heard the car horn around 11.45 pm.

“(When I asked them to stop) The two came to the balcony and started abusing and threatening me. Then they started hurling small diyas placed on the street at me. I called the guard, but he was also scared because the women had attacked a guard in September. The case came to an end after many difficulties,” he said in the FIR.

However, the next day the problem occurred again.

Sharma said the two women allegedly attacked Sharma’s wife and two daughters outside their home around 6.30pm on Saturday. He alleged that they bit one of Sharma’s daughters and hit the other.

When their mother tried to intervene, the sisters allegedly spanked her as well. One of Sharma’s daughters, Reena Sharma, filed the second FIR against them.

Sharma, his family and other residents reportedly gathered outside the women’s home, where the two allegedly abused everyone. Police were then called to the scene and the suspected women also allegedly abused the police team.

Around 7:30 p.m., the sisters got into their car and drove out of the apartment complex, hitting several cars and damaging flower pots installed in the complex. They tried to run over police personnel while trying to flee, said the third FIR filed by a head constable.

Shortly after the women left the apartment complex, they allegedly hit a scooter parked near a tea shop. The owner of the two-wheeler, Joginder (who goes by a single name), said he was drinking tea at a stall nearby and alleged that the women were speeding and also assaulted him after hitting his vehicle.

The women allegedly turned their car towards him and tried to hit him, but he jumped out of the way. However, he said his scooter became trapped under the car’s wheels and was dragged for almost a mile.

On Joginder’s complaint, a fourth FIR was registered.

A senior police officer said officials present at the complex started tracking the sisters and the Noida police were also alerted. “Delhi Police, with the help of Noida Police, chased the women for a few kilometers and managed to stop them,” the officer said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Apoorva Gupta Gupta said the two are unemployed. Their father, Neeraj Jain, runs a printing press and their mother is a housewife.

The parents live in Paharganj and declined to comment when contacted by HT. It is not certain whether the sisters owned the Vasundhara house or rented it.