Mumbai:
A young woman in Mumbai is recovering in hospital from an attack by a pizza delivery boy, who tried to rape her on Tuesday night at her apartment in Worli, an expensive part of the city.
The 22-year-old woman, who lives with her aunt, and is an IT engineer, was alone at home when she placed an order with a local pizzeria.
The police says that when the 17-year-old delivery boy realized that she was alone, he decided to attack her. So he returned 20 minutes later, claiming that he had given her the wrong order. He then forced his way into the apartment. When she shouted for help, they say, he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the stomach and on her wrist. Sources say he threw chili flakes that he had brought at her, and hit her on the head with a rolling pin. He then left the house, leaving her lying in a pool of blood.
Neighbours who heard her cries for help rushed her to hospital.
The suspect has been arrested and sent to a juvenile home.
The attack on a young woman alone at home in a Mumbai high-rise echoes that of a 25-year-old lawyer named Pallavi Purkayastha who was killed in last year at her apartment by a security guard who had stolen the keys to her front door.