In a shocker, just a reminder of horrific 2012 gangrape of a paramedical student in Delhi, a BPO employee was allegedly abducted and gangraped in a moving van by its cleaner and driver on intervening night of Saturday and Sunday in Bengaluru, the silicon valley of the country.
The 22-year-old BPO employee was returning from work to go to her PG and became a victim of the devils who waited for an opportunity. According to police, the cleaner allegedly raped her in the vehicle and the driver in a deserted spot before she was dumped at Madiwala area from where she was picked up after a three-hour long ordeal.
With the help of her friends the woman was admitted to a hospital on Sunday and discharged on Monday. According to her friends, she was reluctant to lodge a complaint but her friends persuaded her to lodge a complaint with Madiwala police station which comes in the IT corridor.
In 2005, a 24-year old Pratibha an employee of a city-based multinational firm was raped and murdered by the cab driver who was later sentenced for life.
According to the police, the accused persons, who came in a van, noticed the victim and asked her where she wanted to go. When the victim replied, they claimed that they were going the same way and agreed to drop her to her destination.
According to information, after she got into the vehicle, one of the accused threatened her at knife-point while the other drove towards Domlur. The duo took her around Silk Board junction, St John’s Hospital road and other areas, until they found an isolated spot near Domlur and raped her. later, they dropped her back to the same place near Madiwala and fled. The victim managed to contact one of her friend and rushed to a private hospital for treatment. She was discharged from the hospital on Monday morning.