Noida: The Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Sunday arrested two more persons in connection with the rape of a woman in a moving bus in Noida. Three accused in this case were earlier arrested.
Three of the four accused were arrested from Ghaziabad while the fourth was arrested from Noida's Sector 62, police said.
So far, 5 persons have been arrested in connection with this case, however, the main accused is still absconding, they informed.
A 25-year-old woman who was travelling from Pratapgarh to Noida was allegedly raped at around 2 am on Wednesday in a privately-operated AC sleeper bus, according to the police.
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The woman, who was travelling with her two children to Noida where her husband works as a vegetable vendor, was allegedly raped by one of the two drivers of the long-route bus on a road stretch between Lucknow and Mathura, the police said.
There were around a dozen more passengers on board the bus at the time of the incident when the woman was allegedly raped on the last seat and threatened with dire consequences if she tried to raise an alarm, according to officials.
An FIR was registered at the Sector 20 police station in Noida under IPC sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) and 212 (harbouring offender), it said.
"Both of these accused had helped the main accused hide and flee away safely," informed Rakesh Kumar Singh, station incharge of Sector 20 police station.
Inputs from PTI
