3-year old the only witness to her mother's rape

Lucknow - During the crime, the 3-year-old had hid herself in the corner of the bus.

Three year old daughter of the Rae Bareli rape victim has emerged as the only witness to the crime. While the 28 year old mother of the kid was gangraped in a UP bus, her 14 day old brother died after falling from mother's lap as she tried to escape her tormentors.
During the crime, the 3-year-old had hid herself in the corner of the bus. While her mother fails to recalls the incident, the kid has come up with details of the crime which she narrated to her father and police.
According to the Superintendent of Police (rural areas) Yamuna Prasad, the incident took place in a bus after it was free of passengers. The two accused have been booked under section 376D (gangrape) and 304(culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPS and sent them to Jail.
The rape incident took place on Monday. The incident occurred as she was returning from Sheeshgarh to Sisauna after attending a wedding at her sister's village and was headed to her village Khajuria late Monday night.
She decided to spend the night at the bus station due to the late hour and rough weather. As she slept in a bus, the two accused overpowered her and raped her, she told police
The accused had then carried her outside the vehicle and put her next to the bus stand while she was unconscious. The girl had slipped out of the bus and hid herself from the accused. The victim was found on the early hours of Tuesday after her husband accompanied by local came looking for her.
They found the victim unconscious and new born boy dead.

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