LUCKNOW: In a shocking incident, a 20-year-old Dalit woman was gang raped on a running bus in Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place in a bus that was going to Jaipur from Uttar Pradesh. The woman was traveling from Kanpur to Jaipur when she was abused by two drivers of the bus. The incident took place on December 9.

The drivers have been identified as Arif and Lalit. Other passengers came to know about the incident when the woman raised an emergency alarm while being abused in a closed cabin. Following, the passengers stopped the bus and caught Arif. But Lalit managed to escape. After the police arrested Arif who was caught by the locals, the court remanded him.

The police informed that the search for Lalit has been intensified. This horrific incident comes 12 years after the Nirbhaya case that rocked the country. On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus in the national capital. The woman was transferred to a hospital in Singapore but died on December 29.