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A Delhi-based woman was allegedly raped while returning home on a private bus on the Yamuna Expressway on Saturday, police said.

The woman faced the ordeal after a crew member inside the bus assaulted her, the police said, while adding that the vehicle was coming from Lucknow.

“She called the 112 helpline on Saturday morning when the bus reached Mant toll plaza in Mathura and informed us about the rape by the bus cleaner,” police further said.

The woman and the accused cleaner Ravi were instructed to get down after which the bus was checked, police stated, after which it left for Delhi. Later, the woman underwent a medical examination.

Afterwards, she was escorted back to her home in Rohini, Delhi under police supervision, while the accused Ravi, a resident of Bahraich district, has been sent to judicial custody, the police added.

SRINAGAR, India: Indian forces opened fire with shotgun pellets and tear gas on Saturday on a procession by hundreds of Muslims in troubled Kashmir, injuring dozens of people who had ignored a ban on religious gatherings, witnesses said.

Indian authorities had reimposed the ban on Thursday after clashes with Shia Muslims wanting to stage traditional processions for the Muharram holy month.

Jafar Ali, a witness, told AFP that the procession started in the Bemina area on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar and that government forces were present in heavy numbers.

Ali and other people who saw the clashes said security forces fired pellets and tear gas to break up the gathering.

“The forces fired pellets at the procession that was mainly peaceful and included women,” said another witness Iqbal Ahmad.

At least 40 people were injured, according to witnesses.

About 25 people were taken to a nearby clinic with pellet wounds, some with their faces and bodies covered in pellet marks, a doctor there told AFP on condition of anonymity.

“We moved about a dozen people to other facilities for more advanced treatment,” the doctor said.

A police official confirmed the incident, saying: “Some people had gathered and were trying to start a procession, they were dispersed.” He did not give details of casualties.

Muharram processions, to mourn Imam Hussain, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in a battle about 1400 years ago, are held around the world but have been regularly banned in Indian Kashmir since an uprising erupted in 1989.

The Muslim-majority Himalayan region is largely divided between India and Pakistan, who both claim it in its entirety and have fought two wars over it.

Last year, India took away the semi-autonomous status granted to its side of the territory. Tensions have risen since.

Muslims in the procession chanted pro-separatist and an anti-Indian slogans, other witnesses said.

Several arrests have been made this week of people shouting against Indian rule when processions have been attempted, a police official said. Some have been charged under anti-terrorism laws.

Dozens of Shia Muslim mourners were detained in Srinagar on Friday after they tried to start Muharram processions. 

60-year-old Mehrunnisa Abdul Hamid Kazi was rescued on Tuesday evening after being trapped for 26 hours under the rubble of the five-storey building which collapsed on Monday evening in Maharashtra’s Raigad area.

A60-year-old woman was rescued on Tuesday evening by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from the debris of Tariq Garden building in Maharashtra’s Raigad, 26 hours after the building collapsed.

Mehrunnisa Abdul Hamid Kazi was trapped under the rubble of the five-storey building which collapsed on Monday evening. Officials said Kazi lived on the fifth floor of the building.

After noticing some movement under a portion of the debris, personnel of the NDRF Force succeeded in pulling her out by 9.35 pm on Tuesday and rushed her to a hospital.

Earlier, the NDRF had rescued four-year-old Mohammad Nadim Bangi safely from the rubble 19 hours after the incident.

Twelve persons have been killed in the building collapse and nine injured. At least three more persons were suspected to be stuck under the debris.