Two separate incidents of sexual assault have been reported in Hyderabad, Telangana. A software engineer was gang-raped by her childhood friend and another acquaintance at a hotel in Hyderabad. In a different incident, a married woman was sexually assaulted by a bus driver while traveling.
According to the software engineer, she had been invited to celebrate a job offer with her childhood friend, Gautham Reddy, and another mutual friend at a bar in Hyderabad’s Vanasthalipuram on Monday evening. Vanasthalipuram Police Inspector D. Jalender Reddy explained that after the men got drunk, they took her to a hotel room and assaulted her. The engineer and Reddy had been classmates from Class 2 to Class 10.
The married woman was traveling from Nirmal to Prakasam district on a private bus when she was attacked by the driver. She reported to the police that he had gagged her with a cloth and assaulted her in the early hours of Tuesday.
After learning about the complaint, the driver, Krishna, fled the scene. The police intercepted the bus near Tarnaka as it entered Hyderabad and detained the other driver, Seshaiah, for questioning, according to Osmania Police Inspector Rajender.
