Telangana: Software engineer raped by friends she invited to celebrate new job with; married woman molested in bus

Two separate incidents took place on Monday and the early hours of Tuesday, the former involving a software engineer, and the latter a married woman who was travelling in a private bus.

In a tragic incident, a woman was raped in a moving bus by the driver in Telangana. The incident took place on a private travel company's "sleeper bus." The bus was travelling from Nirmal town to Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh.

As the bus reached Medchal late last night, the driver raped her. As she raised the alarm, the driver fled the scene. The victim, with the assistance of co-passengers, approached the police. There were around 36 passengers when the incident took place.

According to OU police station, SHO K Rajender driver, Krishna, has been working for the private travel company for the past two years. The victim, a 26-year-old daily wage woman, was going to Pamuru in Prakasam district with her six-year-old daughter .

“The woman had actually booked a single berth. However, the main driver of the bus, Krishna, with a criminal intention, shifted the woman and her daughter to a double-berth slot. After the dinner halt, he gave the wheel to the second driver. And when everyone was asleep, including the woman's daughter, Krishna gagged her mouth using bedsheets and sexually assaulted her,” said SHO Rajender.

The SHO further stated that when she raised the alarm to wake the other passengers after removing the bedsheets from her mouth, Krishna had already left the scene. Police took another driver and a helper into custody, seized the bus, registered a case, and an investigation was going on.

In another incident, two men, one of whom was her childhood friend, allegedly gang-raped a 24-year-old software engineer in Omkar Nagar near Vanasthalipuram late on Monday night.

Vanasthalipuram division ACP Palle Kasi Reddy said that the victim had hosted a party at a local bar and restaurant as she landed a new job.

The victim, in her complaint to the police, said that after the party, she, who was reportedly drunk at the time, along with her childhood friend Gautham Reddy and a common friend, went to a room in the same building where she was allegedly raped by the two men.

After the two men left the place, the victim called up her friends and informed them about the incident. With the help of her friends, she reached the police station. ACP Reddy said that a case has been registered, and they are on the job to trace the two accused.