16-year-old girl gang-rapped inside sleeper bus in Delhi

A 16-year-old class 11 student was allegedly gang-raped inside a sleeper bus in Delhi’s Kashmere Gate area after she sought help from the driver and conductor during heavy rain, following which the two accused were arrested, police sources said.

The incident occurred on August 4 when the girl, a resident of Mainpuri district in Uttar Pradesh, was travelling to Noida to meet her cousin.

According to sources, the girl left her home on August 4 after being upset over being scolded by her mother a day earlier. She boarded a bus for Noida Sector 63, where her cousin lives.

The girl told police that



due to heavy rain and darkness in Noida, she mistakenly got off at Pari Chowk and soon realised that she had alighted at the wrong place.

She then saw a bus approaching and signalled to it for help. The bus stopped, but there were no passengers inside. The conductor told her that they were going towards Noida Sector 63, following which she boarded the sleeper bus, the source said.

However, shortly after the bus started moving, the conductor allegedly began making obscene advances towards her. The driver and the conductor allegedly gang-raped the girl inside the bus and threatened to kill her if she resisted, said the source.