Hyderabad: Woman molested at KBR Park, lodges complaint

HYDERABAD: Days after Tollywood actress Shalu Chourasiya was mugged at KBR Park, another woman lodged a complaint with Banjara Hills police stating that an unidentified man had molested her at the same spot where the actress was robbed in the first week of November. She said that the accused extorted Rs 2,500 cash from her.
The woman, 22, who is a resident of Film Nagar in Banjara Hills, lodged a complaint with police alleging that she used to go for evening walks regularly at KBR Park and would walk on the outer walkway, but stopped doing so after she was assaulted on November 2 evening opposite to a news channel building on Road No.92 of Jubilee Hills.
“An unknown person came from behind. He caught hold of my waist and dragged me into the bushes,” the complainant said.
Police said that the accused molested the complainant and demanded sexual favours from her if she does not give him money.
“The victim gave the accused the Rs 2,500 cash she had with her and started screaming for help. The accused tried to close her mouth while threatening to kill her but the victim managed to push him aside and escape,” Banjara Hills police said. Disturbed by the assault, the victim went to her native place in Andhra Pradesh, but later returned to the city and lodged a complaint.
Police suspect that K Babu, 21, the person arrested for robbing the actress, could be the same person who assaulted the complainant in the latest case.
As Babu already confessed to having committed another similar offence in January 2021 at KBR Park, police are planning to seek his custody to interrogate him. “We will seek his custody to find out if he had committed more such offences,” a cop from Banjara Hills police station said.