In Brief:
- The Class 11 student from Mainpuri, UP, boarded the empty sleeper bus at Pari Chowk, Greater Noida during heavy rain on August 4, before being assaulted over a 47-km route to Kashmere Gate.
- Delhi Police traced the vehicle using CCTV footage and arrested the accused, identified as driver Kuldeep and conductor Sandeep, from a parking lot in Timarpur within four hours.
- Booked under BNS sections for gang rape, kidnapping, and assault alongside the POCSO Act, the case sparked a jurisdictional debate between Delhi Police and UP Police over crime-reporting protocols.
Delhi Police announced on August 31, 2026, the arrest of driver Kuldeep and conductor Sandeep for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old girl inside a moving sleeper bus. Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Niharika Bhatt reported that the survivor, a Class 11 student from Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, had left home on August 3 following a dispute over studies and was en route to her cousin's residence in Noida Sector 63.
After mistakenly alighting at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida during heavy rain, she boarded an empty sleeper bus returning from a Surajpur workshop after the operators falsely assured her it was bound for her destination. Over a 47-km journey along the Greater Noida-Noida Expressway into Delhi via the Chilla border, both men assaulted and threatened her before abandoning her near the Ring Road at Kashmere Gate.
Relying on CCTV footage, Delhi Police arrested both suspects in Timarpur within four hours and registered an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and POCSO Act, prompting a jurisdictional dispute with UP Police over reporting timelines.
Source: Hindustan Times
