Two people have been arrested (Picture: NDTV)

A bus driver asked his cleaner to take over the wheel so that he could rape a teenage girl before dumping her on the roadside, Indian police have said.

The incident happened after the 19-year-old boarded the bus to go to her job at a nursing home 19 miles from Bangalore.

The woman went to hospital and described the attack to doctors, who informed the police.

S.R. Ramesh, Bangalore Rural Additional Superintendent of Police, said: ‘The accused asked the cleaner to drive the bus while he raped her and dumped her later on roadside.’


Just last week, Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was found guilty of rape, kidnap and criminal intimidation of a 26-year-old woman (Picture: Himanshu Sharma/Demotix/Corbis)

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He added that the police had seized the bus and the two accused men have been arrested.

Karnataka’s new Home Minister G. Parameshwara said the accused would be dealt with severely.

Speaking to reporters, Parameshwara said: ‘We will not tolerate any incident of rape in any part of the state. I have directed the police to take preventative steps and act against the guilty strictly.’

High profile rape-cases in India since December 2012 October 2015 – A 23-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by a driver and a cleaner in a van in a suburb of Bangalore. March 2015 – A 71-year-old nun was raped when a gang of robbers struck a Christian school in West Bengal. February 2015 – Police arrested eight men over the gang rape and murder of a mentally ill 28-year-old Nepalese woman in Haryana state. January 2015 – Five men were arrested for the alleged rape of a Japanese tourist in Kolkata. January 2014 – A 51-year-old Danish woman was beaten, robbed and raped near Connaught Place, a popular central shopping area in Delhi. January 2014 – A 13-year-old student of a residential girls’ school near Haridwar was allegedly gang-raped and tortured before being killed. March 2013 – A Swiss couple were camping near a forest in Gwalior when a group of men beat the husband and raped his wife.

The issue of sexual assault has been thrown into the spotlight in India following the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.

The case caused global outrage and triggered mass protests that led to a tightening of laws on sexual violence.

Last week, an Uber driver was sentenced to life in prison for raping a passenger in his car in Delhi last year.

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