Bengaluru: In an incident that revives the grim memories of the horrific gang-rape and murder of a paramedical student in national capital nearly three years ago, a 22-year-old call centre employee was abducted and raped by two men inside a minibus in Bengaluru.
The woman was waiting at the bus stop in Domlur around 9.45 pm when a Tempo Traveller stopped. The van driver and cleaner offered to drop her at her PG, an investigating police officer said. There were no other passengers in the vehicle.
The victim had to endure the trauma for nearly five hours — she was dropped off around 2.30 am in Madiwala.
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The driver drove the vehicle to an isolated place near Old Madras Road and raped her at knife point. Around 2.30 am, they dropped her at Madiwala near Bommanahalli junction and fled after threatening her with dire consequences if she filed a complaint, police said.
Police arrested the accused Yogesh, 27, and Sunil, 23, on Tuesday and said both men had confessed to the crime. The men approached the victim waiting at the Madiwala bus stop around 9.45 pm on Saturday and dragged her into the mini bus, with nobody around to help.
The December 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student by six men had shocked the entire world with its brutality. The crime led to a new law that provides for a life term and even death sentence for rape convicts.
Four of the convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case are on death row. One died in jail. The sixth accused – a juvenile when he was arrested – is set to be released from a reform home by the end of the year.
