16-year-old gang-raped inside sleeper bus in Greater Noida, had fled home after scolding over studies
According to the police, the incident took place near Pari Chowk on August 4.
On August 4, a 16-year-old girl from Mainpuri was allegedly gang-raped inside a sleeper bus in Greater Noida, police confirmed on Monday. The survivor alleged that the driver and conductor forced themselves on her and threatened to kill her if she resisted. They fled the scene near Kashmere Gate, Delhi. The girl had left home without telling her family after her mother scolded her for her studies.
She was en route to Noida sector 63 to meet her cousin when she mistakenly disembarked at Pari Chowk in heavy rain and darkness. Believing she was at the right place, she boarded an empty sleeper bus with no passengers. The conductor told her it was heading towards Noida sector 63, which she accepted and boarded. The bus was returning empty after repairs in Surajpur.
The girl learned she had been wrongfully directed when the bus began moving. Both the driver, Kuldeep, and the conductor, Sandeep, subsequently sexually assaulted her and threatened her with death if she resisted. She alerted authorities after the accused abandoned her near Ring Road and fled. Both men were arrested from a parking lot in Timarpur that same day and booked for gang rape, kidnapping, and assault.
Police seized the bus for forensic examination, recovering the girl's hair strands. A child welfare committee placed her with her parents while the accused were sent to judicial custody. This incident echoes the 2012 Delhi bus rape, which sparked nationwide outrage and led to stricter laws against violence against women.
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