A total of 11 people, including 9 women have been arrested in connection with the incident in Kasturba Nagar in Shahdara District of the national capital in which a 20-year old Sikh woman was allegedly abducted, gang-raped and paraded on the streets with her face blackened with ink, head shaved and with a garland of shoes around her neck, ANI reported.
Nine arrested out of the 11 named in the FIR, are women, Delhi Police said on Friday adding that more arrests will be made soon.
According to police, they were informed about an incident that took place on Wednesday by the woman’s husband, who was not present at the spot but was informed about it by his landlord.
Police said after receiving information, they rushed to the spot and rescued the 20-year-old woman from assault and took her to the police station.
Police have registered a case under different sections of the Indian Penal Code including gang rape, physical assault, sexual assault and criminal conspiracy among others.
Meanwhile, videos surfaced on social networking sites, where the victim’s relatives were heard sharing the ordeal. The victim was allegedly followed and later abducted while she had gone to buy “wheat.” She was kept in a room by the teenage boy’s family, where the women beat her and the men raped her. The deceased boy’s father, too, is said to be among the rapists.
The viral video of the 20 yr old woman being paraded with blackened face on the streets of Delhi is of a Sikh woman.
She was tortured, raped & beaten by the family members of a boy who took his life after she refused his advances.pic.twitter.com/uwupNyH2wQ
— Jas Oberoi | ਜੱਸ ਓਬਰੌਏ (@iJasOberoi) January 30, 2022
According to the victim’s sister, a teenage boy living in the neighbourhood who claimed to be in love with the woman died by suicide in November last year. “His family blames my sister for their son’s death,” she said.
Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to the Delhi Police in connection with the gruesome crime and has demanded quick action to arrest the criminals and provision of security to the family of the survivor.
“An unfortunate incident of sexual assault of a woman due to personal enmity happened in Shahdara District,” said R Sathiyasundaram, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Shahdara.
“Police has nabbed four accused and probe is on. All possible help and counselling are being provided to the victim,” the DCP said.