New Delhi: Instead of extreme outrage over the gang-rape of girl in a moving bus in New Delhi, the cases of rape are not coming to an end in one of the biggest democracies of the world.
Another incident of rape was reported in Indian state of Punjab when a female bus passenger was abducted and gang-raped by a group of people.
The victim was kidnapped after boarding a bus on January 11 to go to her in-laws’ house in a village in Gurdaspur. The bus passed through the woman’s bus stop and continued on to Gurdaspur town.
From there the driver and the conductor forced the woman on to a motorcycle and took her to an unknown location, where five more men joined them and raped the victim.
Then one of the rapists dropped the woman off near her sister-in-law’s village from where the victim managed to walk home.
The woman reported the incident a day later by lodging a complaint at the Kahnuwan police station.
“The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seven accused,” officer Raj Jeet Singh told AFP.
“Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman… after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11,” Singh said, adding that they were searching for the seventh suspect.
Those arrested include the driver and the conductor. All six have already confessed to their crime, Singh said.
The extent of woman’s injuries is unclear.
The attack comes in the wake of a similar case when on December 16 a 23-year-old medical student was gang-raped and severely injured on a bus in Delhi, while her male companion was cruelly beaten. The girl later succumbed to his wounds and died at Queen Elizabeth in Singapore.
Tens of thousands came out on the streets of India to demand tougher measures from the government to protect women from the daily threat of harassment and violence.
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