Delhi girl critical after gang-rape in moving bus 3 Arrested; 23-Yr-Old Battles For Life

Delhi girl critical after gang-rape in moving bus

3 Arrested; 23-Yr-Old Battles For Life

Neeraj Chauhan, Dwaipayan Ghosh & Raj Shekhar Jha TNN

New Delhi:In a new low for a city already notorious as India’s rape capital, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was battling for her life after being brutally beaten up and raped by at least five drunken men in a private bus which was audaciously driven around south Delhi localities on Sunday night even as the crime was being committed inside.
    The unconscious victim and her male friend, who too was badly beaten, were stripped and thrown off near the Mahipalpur flyover on NH-8 after being assaulted for almost an hour. They were picked up around 9.15pm, a time when many Delhiites are still out in the city.
    The woman is in on ventilator support, doctors at Safdarjung Hospital said. On Monday, she underwent a four-hour surgery. Doctors said her intestines had ruptured and she had genital injuries. Her friend, a 27-year-old engineer who was preparing to take the civil services exam, however, helped the police in preparing sketches of the accused.
    Late on Monday, police arrested one of alleged rapists, Ram Singh, a resident of R K Puram Sector 3. Singh was the driver of the bus but on Sunday had let his brother, Mukesh, drive, police said. Singh has reportedly given cops the names of the six other men in the bus on Sunday night. Mukesh and another accused, identified as Kalu, too were nabbed late at night. All three lived in Ravidas Camp slums at sector 3, R K Puram. Seven men involved in the crime: Cops
New Delhi: Several police teams were raiding places in Noida and other spots in UP and Haryana to nab the others.
    Special commissioner of police Dharmendra Kumar told TOI, “Seven men were involved in the crime, including the driver who was probably an accomplice. These include Ram Singh’s brother, a helper, two vegetable vendors from R K Puram and an employee at the Siri Fort auditorium. All were known to each other. The owner of the bus has been identified as Pradeep Yadav, a private transporter, whose buses ply in two prominent schools of south Delhi and Noida.” Police said the victims had gone to watch Life of Pi at Select City Walk mall on Sunday evening. After the movie, they took an auto from Saket and reached the Munirka bus stand around 9pm. They planned to take a bus to her residence in Mahavir Enclave, near Palam. The accused spotted the woman at the bus stop and one of them called out for passengers going towards Palam and Dwarka.
    The couple boarded the bus and bought Rs 10 tickets, said DCP (south) Chhaya Sharma. But soon the men began to misbehave with the girl. When her friend objected, he was beaten up with iron rods and gagged near the driver’s seat. Five of the accused then took the woman to seats in the middle of the bus and took turns to rape her. All this while, the bus roamed around roads adjoining Mahipalpur, Dwarka and Delhi Cantonment. As per CCTV footags, the bus crossed the Dhaula Kuan–Mahipalpur stretch twice. A passerby spotted the two on the road and called the police at 10.22pm.The woman, who completed her studies from Dehradun and was interning at a city hospital.

NIGHTMARE RIDE 6.30–8.30pm | A 23-yr-old physiotherapy student interning at a city hospital watches a film with her male friend at a Saket mall
8.40-9pm | They take auto to Munirka, wait there for bus No. 764 to Mahavir Enclave, where woman stays
9.15pm | Couple boards a white chartered bus with tinted glasses and heavy curtains.
There are 6 men inside
9.25pm | The men taunt woman. Her friend objects, is beaten up and held in driver’s cabin. Woman is beaten and gang-raped. She passes out but rapists don’t stop
10.15pm | Couple dumped in Mahipalpur
after being stripped
    Victim critical, put on ventilator after a four-hour operation
    Bus traced to R K Puram. Driver Ram Singh, one of the rapists, arrested. All other accused identified, manhunt on