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The Delhi Police, on Saturday, arrested a man who raped a 21-year-old woman and threw her off an under-construction building in Delhi’s Rohini area on Friday.

The victim who is an associate chef at a five-star hotel met the accused through two of their mutual friends, the night of the incident.

They had planned to visit a mall in Subhash Nagar, but their bike was impounded by the police. The accussed, then offered to pick up his car from his house and drop them home

When they reached an under construction building, the accused stopped the rickshaw and asked the girl to accompany him to meet his mother while asking the friends to stay back in the auto rickshaw. He instead, took her to the fourth floor of an under-construction and tried to rape her.

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When she resisted his advances and tried to scream for help, he pushed her off the fourth floor of the building.

Their friends who were waiting below the building saw her fall and immediately called the police.

She is now battling for life. "We got a call from police late at night, informing us that our daughter was hurt. Nobody told us that she was injured to such an extent," said the victim's father.

The police have arrested the accused and booked him under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 366 (kidnapping), 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) and 376 (punishment for rape) of the IPC, said DCP (Rohini) Rishi Pal.

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