On Saturday (7th September), an auto driver named Mohammad Salim was arrested for recording the Ujjain rape case video and circulating it on social media.
As per reports, Salim is a resident of Nagda town in Ujjain district and will now be named a co-accused in the case under conspiracy charges.
According to the police, he stepped out of the bus at the Koyla Phatak junction and saw accused Lokesh raping a ragpicker on the roadside.
Mohammad Salim is the pervert who, instead of helping, spectated and filmed the dastardly rape of a woman on a foot path in Ujjain in broad day light. Worse, he uploaded the clip to commodify the depraved crime. Mohammad Salim has got criminal antecedents.
— Rahul Shivshankar (@RShivshankar) September 7, 2024
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Instead of helping the victim, he filmed the incident on his phone and shared it on social media. The cops identified the auto driver using the CCTV footage from the area and tracked him using his mobile number.
The police have also seized his phone, recovered the rape video and sent it for forensic analysis.
Reportedly, Salim has a criminal history and has previously been booked by the police under several charges including assault.
While speaking about the matter, Ujjain SP Pradeep Sharma stated, “The person who made the video of this entire act has been arrested by the police from Nagda. The youth’s previous criminal record has also come to light. A mobile has also been recovered from him, from which we have recovered the video.”
“Our cyber police team is doing forensic analysis. The people to whom he has sent the video are also being investigated. If this has been done under pre-planning, then action will be taken against him. The accused has been taken on remand and is being questioned,” he emphasised.
The Background of the Case
A man named Lokesh raped a woman in broad daylight in Ujjain’s busiest junction, Koyla Phatak, on Wednesday (4th September).
The incident stirred controversy on social media as no single person came to the victim’s rescue. The police arrested the perpetrator within 2 hours of filing the complaint on Thursday (5th September).
