Ritesh Mishra/Kanpur Dehat5 hours ago
A 16-year-old student from Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, was gang-raped on a moving sleeper bus in Delhi. The men who committed the crime are also from Uttar Pradesh. Bus driver Kuldeep Sharma (45) is a resident of Ladpur Paith village in Kanpur Dehat, while conductor Sandeep is a resident of Katri village in Kanpur city. The police arrested both of them from the bus parking area in Timarpur, North Delhi.
The bus used in the crime belongs to Vishwanath Tour and Travels of Firozabad. Its owner is Anil Jadon. He said, “I run a travel agency under the name Vishwanath Tour and Travels. The bus (UP 83 AT 3789) is registered in my name. I had sent the bus to Delhi for repairs and servicing on July 27. The driver and conductor had gone along with the bus. I had not had either of them police-verified. I have provided the police with all the information related to the driver and conductor.”
The gang rape incident took place on August 4, but the police disclosed the information on August 31. According to the police, the student boarded a bus at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida. The driver and conductor dropped her at Kashmere Gate. During this time, the bus traveled approximately 47 km. Curtains had been installed on the bus windows.
Dainik Bhaskar spoke to bus driver Kuldeep’s mother, wife, and daughter. Read who said what…
Wife said, “My husband is being framed”
Kuldeep’s wife Archana said: “My husband left home on August 3. The incident took place on the 4th. Kuldeep is being framed unlawfully. Kuldeep does not stay away for even 15 days; he often returns home. He has diabetes.”
Kuldeep frequently travels between Punjab and Delhi for work. The conductors accompanying him also keep changing. Archana has raised doubts about the conductor’s role. She said, “It is possible that my husband was framed because of him.”
Mother said, “There were never any complaints against my son”
Kuldeep’s mother, Shyama Murti, said, “My husband died two or three months ago. False allegations are being made against my son. My son has been driving for the past 10-15 years, but there has never been any complaint against him. Before the incident, my son had been at home for 8-10 days. The very day he left home, a case was registered against him. My son is being deliberately framed.”
Daughter said, “Father takes good care of the family”
Kuldeep’s daughter said: “My father takes good care of the family. The allegations that he raped the girl are false. My father is not like that. My father was implicated in this case just a few days after Baba’s murder. My father left home a day before the incident. We have not spoken to him since then.”
The student’s house is locked, although the family was here during Raksha Bandhan.
The girl’s house was found locked
The Class 11 student who was gang-raped is a resident of the Kishni police station area in Mainpuri. Her house is currently locked. We tried to speak to people living near her house, but they refused to say anything.
The student’s father was in Panipat (Haryana) at the time of the incident. He lives there and works. Her mother and the student, however, live in the village. The student’s brother works at a private company in Delhi. Upset by her mother’s scolding and beating over her studies, she had left to go to her brother.
Now understand the incident step by step
Victim left home after an argument and got off at the wrong place
According to the police, the student left Mainpuri by bus for Delhi without informing her mother after a quarrel in the family. The distance from Mainpuri to Noida is more than 300 km. Because of the heavy rain and darkness, she mistakenly got off at Pari Chowk. She then began waiting for a vehicle to take her to Noida. Meanwhile, an empty sleeper bus passed by. She signaled for the bus to stop.
Driver and conductor let her board the bus, then gang-raped her
The driver and conductor let the student board the bus. They told her that the bus was going to Noida Sector 63. Some time after the bus started moving, the conductor tried to behave obscenely with the student. The student told the police that the driver and conductor raped her. When she resisted, both threatened to kill her.
This is bus owner Anil Jadaun, who said, “I had not had the driver and conductor police-verified.”
Driver and conductor fled after abandoning her near Kashmere Gate
Late on the night of 4 August, the two dropped the student on Ring Road near the Kashmere Gate bus terminal. They then fled the scene. That same night, the student contacted the Kashmere Gate police and reported the incident.
According to the complaint, investigators formed a team under the leadership of Kotwali ACP Shankar Banerjee. The team examined CCTV footage from along the route to identify the bus and track its route.
Police arrested the driver, Kuldeep, and the conductor, Sandeep, from a bus parking area in Timarpur. The sleeper bus used in the incident was also seized. Forensic examination of the bus was conducted.
3 photos of the inside and outside of the bus…
The bus number is UP-83, and it is registered in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh.
This is the aisle inside the bus, where an accused person’s shirt is lying on the floor.
This is the area next to the driver’s seat, where some clothes and belongings are scattered.
According to police sources, on the day of the incident, after the bus broke down, the accused took it to a workshop in Surajpur (Noida) for repairs. Once the repairs were completed, the driver and conductor were taking the empty bus to Timarpur when the student signaled them to stop at Pari Chowk. Police said that the two used the curtained interior of the bus to conceal the crime during the late-night journey. People passing by outside could not see inside.
14 years ago, the Nirbhaya case took place in Delhi, when a woman was gang-raped on a moving bus
On the night of 16 December 2012, a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi. An iron rod was inserted into her private parts. Due to her critical injuries, the woman was referred to Singapore, where she died in a hospital on 29 December. Protests took place in Delhi and across the country over the case. The media dubbed it the Nirbhaya case.
Six people were accused in the case. One accused was a minor, while another died by suicide in jail. Four convicts-Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh-were sentenced to death. All four were hanged at Delhi’s Tihar Jail on 20 March 2020.
