NEW DELHI – World’s Rape capital Delhi has been hit with a new stigma,publicly masturbating in front of the women.

In yet another incident which brings the city to shame, a cab driver wasarrested and sent to judicial custody on Wednesday after a lady passengeraccused him of masturbating while driving the vehicle.

News agency ANI reports that the incident took place last Sunday (April15). In her complaint to the police, the lady passenger has said that soonafter she got into a cab, the driver began masturbating in front of herwhile still negotiating traffic outside. The shocked lady reportedly askedhim to stop the car and she eventually filed a complaint.

Incidents such as this are hardly new in a city where crimes against women- in some form or the other – are shockingly common. On April 8, ataekwondo instructor – Sandeep Chauhan – was arrested on charges offlashing and masturbating in front of two women.

One of the women filed a complaint in which she alleged that Chauhanflashed at her when she was on her balcony and later followed the secondwoman till outside her home – making lewd comments, flashed her andbegan masturbating in front of her.

At a time when recent rape incidents involving minors have shocked theentire country for being absolute gruesome, incidents of flashing andpublic masturbation are no less heinous.