Overview
- The girl, a 16-year-old Class 11 student from Mainpuri, says she was raped on August 4 after boarding an empty sleeper bus at Pari Chowk while stranded in heavy rain.
- Police arrested the bus driver Kuldeep and conductor Sandeep from a Timarpur parking area and seized the bus for forensic work.
- Investigators say the bus had curtained sleeper berths that could hide activity, and the vehicle travelled about 47 kilometres before the girl was abandoned near Kashmere Gate.
- Forensic teams recovered strands of the girl’s hair from the bus and police have collected CCTV from the route; the two men have been charged with gang rape, kidnapping and assault and remanded to judicial custody.
- The Child Welfare Committee returned the survivor to her parents and police say further forensic analysis and evidence-gathering will determine the case for prosecution, a process that also follows broader public concern over sexual violence on public transport.