India, May 15 -- The 30-year-old woman from Delhi's Pitampura, desperate to get home to her three young daughters, says a simple question at the Saraswati Vihar bus stop changed the course of her night.

Standing alone at the bus stand past midnight, she approached a private bus only to ask a man inside for the time. Minutes later, police said, she was allegedly gangraped inside the moving vehicle by two men.

The woman told police that she had gone to her brother's house in Sultanpuri earlier that day to help him shift houses. Late at night, while returning home, she managed to get an e-rickshaw till Saraswati Vihar on the Outer Ring Road.

"I was standing at the bus stop when this private bus stopped. I asked a man standing inside about...