arshdeep kaur and her mother shinder were travelling from their home in punjab , northern india , to visit relatives when a group of about half a dozen men began harassing them .
the men grabbed arshdeep and made several attempts to ` molest ' her and her mother , but instead of defending them , the bus staff joined in the sexual assault .
the incident took place on a near-empty bus near moga , some 50 miles from the pakistani border .