A 32-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a bus in Jharkhand's Koderma district, police said Saturday.
According to the police, the woman was travelling to Jharkhand's Koderma district from Bihar's Nawada district in a Sri Travels bus on Friday.
The driver took the bus to an Isolated place after all other passengers got down at Tilaiya of Koderma district and his assistant raped the woman, the victim told the police.
The woman's medical test will be conducted, police said, adding that an operation has been launched to arrest the accused.
One woman/girl is raped, on average, every eight to nine hours in Jharkhand.
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