Bengaluru bus driver offers to take woman home but rapes her instead; he is arrested

Credent Tv: A woman of three was sexually assaulted inside a private school bus on Tuesday near Nayandahalli in West Bengaluru.

Police detained Nayandahalli resident and accused Shivakumar, 40. The Nagarabhavi-based rape survivor works as an ayah (peon) at another private school.

After leaving her job, the woman, according to police, was waiting for a bus near the Nayandahalli junction when she noticed the private school bus being driven by Shivakumar was headed in her direction. For a drop-off, she waved at the bus.
Shivakumar halted the bus and offered Nagarabhavi a ride, saying that he was also going in her direction. Around 5.30 p.m., as soon as she boarded the car, Shivakumar drove to the Male Mahadeshwara temple in Kailasagiri, some three kilometres from the Nayandahalli junction, and halted the bus there. Inside the bus, he raped her and beat, threatened, and harassed her.

He left her behind.
Around seven o’clock, he dropped her off after cautioning her against approaching the police or telling anyone about the incident.

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She took a picture of the bus after getting off, along with the registration number, and sent it to her 20-year-old son, telling him the driver had raped her.

Upon returning home, her son formed a search party with his friends for the bus after hearing from his mother that she had seen the bus and the driver a few times near Nayandahalli.

Around 8.30 p.m., in Nayandahalli, they located the bus. The driver was already very inebriated.

The victim’s son and several of his friends pulled him from the bus and got into a fight with him. Unaware of the driver’s actions, locals who witnessed them fighting called the police and reported what they observed, the Chandra Layout police

The woman’s son told Chandra Layout police about the rape.

Deputy Commissioner of Police for the West Laxman B. Nimbargi stated: “We have had the victim undergo a medical examination. Officials from the Forensic Science Laboratory’s team have gathered the victim’s and the bus’s evidence. We detained the suspect on suspicion of rape, attempted murder, unlawful detention, and other applicable IPC provisions.

Shivakumar used to travel via the same road every day, and the woman admitted to seeing him a few times, but they were not friends or acquaintances.