Meerut, Aug. 25 -- A 35-year-old woman from Delhi sustained severe injuries after she allegedly jumped out of a moving e-rickshaw to escape a sexual assault attempt in Meerut's Kankerkhera area on Saturday night. Two men were later arrested in connection with the incident.

Police suspected that there was an altercation over the fare between the woman and the driver.

In the FIR, she said she had come to Meerut at the invitation of her friend for a birthday party at a hotel. After the party ended, she left on foot. An e-rickshaw driver offered her a lift when she was attempting to reach Anand Vihar in Delhi.

Apart from the driver, two men were seated in the e-rickshaw. So, she sat in the vehicle's front seat on the driver's insistence, b...