Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 15-05-2017
Police in the northern state of Haryana in India have arrested two men after they gang-raped an Indian woman and then brutally murdered her by smashing her skull with bricks after she had threatened to inform authorities.
The body was found in an open field on Thursday.
Police say six more men are being investigated after the victim’s mother accused them of involvement.
Superintendent of police Ashwin Shenvi told Reuters the 23-year old woman, a labourer, was taken by the men – at least one of whom knew her – by car from near her home in Sonipat to the nearby city of Rohtak, where they raped her.
“When she said to them she would complain, they hammered her skull in with bricks. The way that they brutalised her is horrific.”
Shenvi says the mother of the victim had previously registered a complaint against one of the accused for pressuring her daughter into marrying him, but the disagreement was settled between the two parties.
Sexual violence against women is a highly-charged issue in India, where the horrific, fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012 sparked nationwide protests about entrenched violence against women and the failure of authorities to protect them.
India has enacted tougher jail sentences for rapists and promised to try those accused through “fast-track” courts but rape, acid attacks and domestic violence remain common.
– Reuetrs
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