Police in Ahmedabad have registered a case after a woman alleged that a man stopped and harassed her while she was returning home from a neighbourhood garba event near Khanpur in the early hours of the morning. The Shahpur police have begun investigating the complaint and are taking action to locate the accused, identified in the report as Nimesh.
According to the complaint described by Divya Bhaskar, the woman had attended a street garba event with her family on the night of Navmi. She was returning home at about 6 am after the event when she found the accused standing near the entrance to her lane. He allegedly asked her to be friends with him.
The woman reportedly refused. The complaint states that the man then behaved inappropriately, touched her without consent and attempted to force himself on her. It also alleges that he made an obscene demand to establish a physical relationship with her.
The woman raised an alarm after becoming frightened. A nearby resident heard the commotion and came to the location, following which the accused allegedly fled. The woman then returned home. According to the report, she was distressed and initially did not tell her family about the incident.
Later in the afternoon, her mother noticed that she was frightened and asked what had happened. The woman then described the incident to her family. The family subsequently took her to Shahpur police station, where a complaint was filed against Nimesh.
The case places attention on the safety conditions around neighbourhood public spaces and residential streets after community events. The reported incident occurred after an all-night garba programme, when the woman was travelling along a lane near her home. The available report does not provide details about street lighting, surveillance, patrol arrangements or the presence of other security measures at the location.
Police have registered the offence on the basis of the complaint and started further investigation. The report says officers are taking steps to apprehend the accused. It does not state whether an arrest had been completed at the time of publication, and no further official details about the investigation are provided in the supplied material.
