A 40-year-elderly person has been arrested in Delhi for allegedly spitting on a Manipuri woman and calling her "corona"

A 40-year-elderly person has been arrested in Delhi for allegedly spitting on a Manipuri woman and calling her "corona" a week ago, PTI reported, quoting police. The accused was recognized as Gaurav Vohra, a resident of Model Town locality. 

There have been reports about Asians around the world, and people from the Northeast in India, battling with racial assaults, as they have been connected with the novel coronavirus outbreak that started in China a year ago. 

The lady had filed a complaint on Sunday alleging that the man slow his scooter, spat paan all over face and called her "corona" on a road in Mukherjee Nagar. The police analyzed the CCTV film of the area and looked for a white scooter. After the scooter was recognized, the police arrested the accused.. 

"She has expressed in her complaint that she was going through a dark stretch when a man passed lewd comments on her," a senior cop said by The Indian Express. "At the point when she objected,  he spat on her and managed to escape after shouting ‘corona’.”

Vohra works at a cooker manufacturing factory in Anand Parbat area, the police said. The police seized the vehicle from his poseesion. 

On Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had condemned the incident, and asked the Delhi Police to find the guilty  and make take strict action. “Am shocked to read this,” Kejriwal had tweeted. "Delhi Police must FIND the culprit and take strict action. We should be joined as a nation, espicially in our battle against Covid-19." 

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday asked state governments to senitise all law enforcement agencies to make a action against any sort of verbal and physical harassment of peole from the North East in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak in India.