German woman on vacation sexually assaulted by cab driver near Hyderabad airport

Hyderabad: A 25-year-old German woman, on vacation in Hyderabad, was sexually assaulted by a cab driver when she was alone. The woman and her friends were in the city visiting friends. The incident happened under Pahadishareef police station limits and the accused, identified as Aslam, was arrested.

Two German nationals (Victim) and her friend arrived at Hyderabad on March 4, to travel and explore the city. Both German nationals have stayed at their friend’s residence in Meerpet since then and are visiting the places in the city. All three are friends, during pursuing a Bachelor's degree in data analysis at a University in Italy.

On March 3, around 6:30 pm, Victim woman and her German friend, left house to visit nearby vegetable market, while on their way, they were approached by a Swift Desire car, occupied by 6 individuals, including the Accused, who was driving the car.

Except the accused (25-yrs), all others were minor boys of age group between 9, 10, 11,b12 to 16 yrs, all from Yakuthpura limits. The occupants greeted them and inquired about their destination. Upon learning that they were heading to the market, the accused offered them a drive. Trusting the offer, both the German nationals boarded the car.

The group proceeded towards Chandrayangutta, after refueling the car they went to different places and proceeded towards Mamidipally in Pahadishareef PS limits.

Upon arrival, the accused told others including victim’s friend to take selfies and then he drove approximately 100 meters away with the victim German woman alone to a secluded location. At this point, the driver (Mohammed Abdul Aslam) threatened her for life, and forcibly committed rape inside the car.

After committing the crime, he drove back to the spot where the others were dropped. Upon slowing down, the victim jumped out of the moving vehicle and met her friend.

A case was registered under Cr No. 181/2025, U/s 64(1) BNS, and the investigation was initiated.

During the investigation, on April 1, at 4 pm, the accused Mohammed Abdul Aslam, age 25 years, resident of Yakutpura, Hyderabad, was apprehended. He confessed that previously he worked as a driver in Dubai and he has not doing anything since one year.

Accused hired a car (Swift Desire) through Long Drive app and picked up his colony mates and while roaming around he found the Victim and her friend in Meerpet limits and on the pretext of dropping them at their desired place (Vegetable Market), and took them to nearby areas.

He started gaining victim’s trust with an intent to commit rape on the victim, as per the plan accused dropped everyone at a Mamidipally to take the photographs and the accused alone took her to a secluded place in car which is 100mts away from where others were dropped and committed the offence.

The victim was sent for a medical examination, police seized material objects of crime from the victim and crime scene. Seized the car used in the commission of offence.