Jehanabad (Bihar): In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old woman returning home from her parents' village was gangraped twice in Bihar's Jehanabad town.

The woman, who had arrived from Bhaisma village in Jehanabad district to the bus stop in Jehanabad town on October 19, found no buses were available to go to her husband's residence at Saidpur village as it was after 20:00 hours (IST). She therefore agreed to a lift offered by a passing jeep, Superintendent of Police Anil Kishore Yadav said.

The driver of the jeep and four others inside offered to drive her home after dinner at a nearby dhaba.

But instead of being driven home after stopping at the dhaba, she was gangraped in the jeep and thrown out on the bus stop, Yadav said.

Her ordeal did not end there. She was forcibly picked up by another passing jeep and gangraped again, the SP said.

The woman's son who was found crying at the bus stand by locals took him to the police where he narrated what had befallen his mother, Yadav said. The woman was subsequently rescued from a Bihar State Electricity Board store in the town around midnight and the guard there, Manjeet Rout, was arrested, he said.

Five others, including the drivers of the two jeeps, were also arrested in police raids that followed, Yadav added.

PTI