The incident brought back memories of the infamous Nirbhaya incident that shocked the country when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi on Dec 16, 2012
GUWAHATI, April 2: It would have almost been a rerun of the Nirbhaya incident, this time in Assam’s Sribhumi district when a young girl, who was travelling in a bus from Badarpurghat to Chargola, was thrown out of the moving vehicle after she resisted a rape bid by four men, including the driver and conductor of the bus.
The girl, who suffered serious injuries and was rushed to hospital for treatment, was travelling in the bus that had two other male passengers along with the driver and conductor of the vehicle when the four men pounced on her and attempted to outrage her modesty in the moving vehicle.
When she resisted and tried to fight back, they pushed her out of the moving bus.
The incident has, meanwhile, triggered massive protests with several people, including leaders of several social organizations, taking to the streets and demanding the arrest of the four accused and awarding them exemplary punishment.
Sribhumi Police have launched an investigation into the incident and are trying to identify the four accused and arrest them.
Today’s incident in Sribhumi bears striking similarities with the horrific Nirbhaya gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi on December 16, 2012.
The Nirbhaya Case
The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, took place on December 16, 2012, when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who was traveling on a private bus in South Delhi with a male friend, was brutally assaulted and gangraped by 6 men, including the bus driver, .
The attackers then threw her and her male friend out of the moving bus.
Although the victim was taken to a hospital and was later airlifted to a super-speciality hospital in Singapore, she succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012.
Massive protests erupted across India, with protesters demanding justice and stricter laws against sexual violence.
All the accused were arrested and, after a trial involving fast-track courts, four of the rapists were executed by hanging in 2020 while one died by suicide in jail.
The sixth accused, who was reportedly a juvenile at the time of the crime, served three years in a reform home and was released.
