August 27, 2024: A 19 year old nursing trainee allegedly raped by an auto-rickshaw driver in Maharashtra. According to initial reports, the victim had taken an auto-rickshaw ride home when the driver offered her drinking water.

The water was spiked and the teenager lost consciousness. The driver then allegedly took the victim to a deserted place and sexually assaulted her.

On regaining her consciousness, the victim informed her family and later registered a police complaint. An FIR has been registered and police are scanning CCTB footage to zero in on the accused.

The incident has sparked protests in the area. Local residents blocked a road for hours last night, demanding swift action in the case.

This incident comes amid nationwide outrage against crime against women in the aftermath of the horrifying rape and murder of a 31 year old doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Hospital.