Last week a nurse was raped in the city
By Dileep Thekkethil
India’s technology hub, Bengaluru is turning out to be alarmingly unsafe for women as a 30-year old was allegedly raped by two security guards on Wednesday night, registering third such incident in a span of one month.
According to police, the woman was allegedly raped by two security guards manning a tennis club in Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park. The incident came to the notice of the night patrolling cops who found the distraught woman sitting near Siddalingaiah circle, near Vidhanasoudha.
Cubbon Park Police also said that they have arrested the two accused and that the investigation is currently progressing.
DNA reported that the victim, a native of Tumkur, went to the Cubbon Park area to get membership of the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association.
Recent atrocities against women in Bengaluru streets clearly indicates the rise in the number of such attacks when compared to last few years. It was only a week before that a 19-year old assistant nurse was allegedly raped in an incident similar to that of the horrifying Nirbhaya gang rape. The nurse was raped inside a moving minibus by the driver after she boarded the bus, not knowing that she was the lone passenger. The accused are currently in judicial custody.
Last month, a 23-year-old BPO employee was allegedly gangraped by another driver-cleaner duo in a moving van. The accused are under arrest.