Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Jul 1: The district policemen took into custody two drivers of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation on a complaint filed by a teenager that they had sexually harassed her while travelling in their bus. The drivers have been identified as Ashok Kumar and Ramu, drivers of the bus which runs between Coimbatore and Kollur.
The complainant, a 16-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu, who presently resides in Nitte in Karkala taluk, had travelled by the said bus by boarding the same at Satyamangalam along with her younger brother on Wednesday evening. The bus had only a handful of passengers. While one of the drivers was driving, the other sat by her side on the last seat by asking her brother to shift to another seat, it is said. Thereafter, the drivers switched their roles, and the person who handed over the driving to the other, started making sexual advances, the girl said.
When the girl alighted from the bus at Padubidri at around 2.15 am on Thursday, one of the drivers handed over a chit containing his mobile number. The girl and her brother reached home and narrated their ordeal. The family members of the girl waited for the bus to return to Udupi in the afternoon, and handed the drivers over to the police after taking them to task. The town police have since transferred the case to Padubidri police station.