NEW DELHI, AUG 31 (PTI): A 16-year-old girl, who boarded a sleeper bus in Greater Noida on a rainy night earlier this month, was allegedly gang-raped by its conductor and driver and abandoned near Kashmere Gate, more than 40 km away in Old Delhi, police said.
The two accused have been arrested, they said, adding that the bus was on the move when the girl was raped.
The crime, which brought back painful memories of the 2012 gang-rape and murder in Delhi known as the Nirbhaya case, took place on the night of August 4.
Upset after being scolded by her mother, the girl from Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh left home and boarded a bus for Noida Sector 63, where her cousin lives, police said.
She mistakenly got off at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida amid heavy rain around 9 pm, the Class 11 student told police.
Standing in pouring rain, the girl realised that she was still about 25 km away from her cousin’s place. As she searched for transport to reach there, a bus stopped near her.
According to police, the conductor allegedly told her that they were headed to Sector 63 and would drop her off there. Trusting his words, the girl boarded the bus.
The bus, however, was not on regular passenger service that night.
According to investigators and the travel company that operated the bus, it had been taken to a workshop at Surajpur in Greater Noida for repairs after developing a technical fault.
The two accused picked up the bus from the workshop around 5 pm and began their journey around 9 pm.
They travelled from Surajpur to Pari Chowk, where they picked up the girl on the pretext of giving her a lift, before proceeding towards Kashmere Gate. En route, they gang-raped the girl, she alleged in her complaint.
The girl was abandoned at Kashmere Gate, from where she managed to take an auto-rickshaw to the police station.
In a video statement, DCP (North) Niharika Bhatt said that without going into any jurisdiction issue, Delhi Police registered an FIR and launched a search to arrest the accused.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter, and directed Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar to initiate an expeditious investigation and submit an action-taken report within seven days.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026