Chicago – February 16, 2026
An 11-year-old girl selling roses at a central Delhi traffic signal was raped and left unconscious near a forest area by an e-rickshaw driver.
The girl was at a traffic signal, waiting for it to turn red so that she could sell roses to vehicle users, police said. The accused, identified by cops as 40-year-old Durgesh, stopped his e-rickshaw at the signal after dropping off passengers.
The police said that the accused tricked the child into sitting on the e-rickshaw. “When the child approached him to sell flowers, he lured her with the promise of helping her sell all the roses in one go and made her sit in the vehicle,” said the police.
The accused then took the girl to a nearby forest area, where he raped her, police said. Assuming her to be dead from the assault, he took her back to the same place where he had picked her and fled the spot, leaving her unconscious.
