Nurse raped in moving bus near Bengaluru

Police has arrested accused Ravi, 26 with bus cleaner Manjunath, 23

A 19-year-old nurse was allegedly raped in a moving bus by its driver at Hoskote on the city's eastern outskirts, police said on Friday.

"We have arrested accused Ravi, 26, with bus cleaner Manjunath, 23, on a complaint by the victim that she was raped by the driver when she was alone in the bus on Thursday night," Bengaluru Rural Additional Superintendent of Police S.R. Ramesh told IANS here.

The attack took place when the young woman boarded the bus at Sulibele to go to work at a nursing home in Hoskote, 30 km from the city centre.

"The accused asked the cleaner to drive the bus while he raped her and dumped her later on the roadside at Nagagondanahalli. When she narrated the incident to doctors at a private hospital, police were called to take her complaint," Ramesh said.

After recording her version of the incident in Kannada, police swung into action and arrested the two people and seized the bus. The bus was registered in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

On October 3, a 23-year-old woman was gang raped by a driver and a cleaner in a moving van in the city's southeast suburb.