The bus that a 23-year-old medical student was brutally raped in earlier this month, was a repeat offender, reports NDTV.

According to the police, it had been fined eight times and impounded six times in the last two years. In July this year, it was impounded for picking up passengers without a permit, much the way it was used on the evening that the rape vicitim and her friend boarded it.

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