The driver and cleaner of the bus have been arrested for the assault
A young woman has been allegedly gang-raped on a moving mini-bus in Karnataka, 40 km from the capital of Bengaluru.
The driver and cleaner of the bus have been arrested for the sexual assault, which took place yesterday in the Hoskote region of the state.
The 19-year-old woman, who works is at a nursing home, is now recovering at a hospital in Hoskote.
The bus was privately owned and operated.
Police sources said the driver Ravi, 26, told the cleaner, identified as Manjunath, 23, to take the wheel while he raped the teenager. Both men have been arrested. The woman is being treated at a hospital in Hoskote.
"She happened to be the only passenger in the bus. So while she was going this crime has taken place and the main accused who committed the offence has been arrested and along with him even the driver who was there has been arrested for abetting the offence," senior police officer Arun Chakravarthi said.
"Wherever violence happens in the state we will not accept it. Let it be very clear. We will immediately according to the law," said Karnataka's new Home Minister G. Parameshwara.
The incident also drew attention to one last month, when a woman returning home from work at night in Bengaluru, was allegedly raped after she got into a private vehicle.
In December 2012, the gang rape of a young student on a moving bus in Delhi shocked the world. The young woman - named "Nirbhaya" by the media - died a few weeks later of injuries caused by the attack; she was violated with iron rods by a group of six men.