Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti has demanded the immediate arrest of an accused in a case of rape of a 35-year-old Dalit woman at Chandapur village in Chincholi taluk of Kalaburagi district.
Samiti State Vice-President Nagappa Tiger, addressing a press conference here on Friday, said that the accused, Praveen Kote, a bus conductor attached to Humnabad Depot in Bidar district, raped and threatened to kill the woman.
The victim met the accused while she was travelling from Mannaekhelli village in Bidar to Chandapur village on January 21 this year. Mr. Kote, the accused, who was on duty on the same bus, tried to befriend the victim. He also tried to get her contact number and residential address.
