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The incident took place in Khanna, around two hours from Moga. An FIR has been registered. The driver and the conductor have also been arrested.
Updated : May 04, 2015, 10:54 AM IST
The Punjab Police has arrested two people over charges of molesting a 30-year-old woman aboard a moving private bus.
The incident took place in Khanna, around two hours from Moga. The incident comes to the fore even as the state government is under sharp criticism over the molestation case of a 13-year-old girl in Moga district.
"An FIR has been registered. The driver and the conductor have also been arrested. The search is going on for the accused," said Khanna DSP Gurdeep Singh.
According to reports, a man sitting next to the woman on the bus started touching her inappropriately and passed lewd comments, following which the woman complaint to the conductor but it made no difference.
The woman then called her husband, who informed the police about the ntoward incident. To make matters worse, the bus did not stop at the signal and did so only after being chased.
The bus driver, conductor and the molester later fled the spot.
Expressing grave concern over the second molestation case in Punjab within a week, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Barkha Shukla Singh said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should resign if his government is not able to protect women in the state.
“Badal government has been in Punjab since a very long time and if they still can’t keep the women of Punjab safe then he should resign,” Singh told ANI here.
“In the past two days, a girl’s father was beaten up and the girl was raped. The administration should be more careful,” she added.
The police have arrested two people over charges of molesting a 30-year-old woman aboard a moving private bus in Khanna city of Punjab.