Three men have been arrested in India for the murder of a mother who had accused two young men of gang-raping her 19-year-old deaf-mute daughter, in what police believe was a brutal act of revenge for trusting the police.
The 50-year-old mother, who has not been named, was working in a field in Jharkhand when the parents of the two accused children and another family member allegedly jumped out and hacked her to death on Sunday.
“The motive appears to be revenge for the police action initiated against the children and the land dispute with the victim,” local police reported, adding that they had recovered a weapon.
Two 14-year-old boys are suspected of breaking the lock on the woman’s home in Gumla village while she was sleeping one night last month, before distracting her to kidnap her deaf-mute daughter.
They then dragged her to a school building and raped her, according to the investigating officer.
Archive image. A woman was allegedly dragged from her home and raped after two boys broke the lock and forced their way in in Jharkhand, India, last month.
The arrests were reported on Monday, a day after the brutal attack in Jharkhand.
The suspects include the two parents of the two boys suspected in the rape attack and a third who allegedly had a long-standing dispute with her.
An investigating officer said the woman had been sleeping at home with her daughter on March 13, while her elder daughter was attending a wedding function.
The two boys allegedly broke the lock to get into the house and told the mother to go check on her older son, who was “up to something indecent” at the party.
Investigators believe they dragged their other daughter out of the house after she left, taking her to a school building before attacking her.
The identity of the victim has not been revealed to protect his right to privacy.
A complaint has been registered and an investigation has been launched.
Two minors are currently being held in an observation center, reports the Times of India. reported.
In March, a 28-year-old Spanish tourist and travel influencer saying was assaulted and gang-raped in Dumka, Jharkhand.
Fernanda, 28, and Vicente, 63, who were heading to Nepal from India on separate motorcycles, were allegedly attacked by a group of seven people after setting up camp in a makeshift tent in the district.
Vicente said his “mouth was destroyed” when his attackers used a helmet and a rock to hit him.
Fernanda, who was seen with visible bruises on her face, said: “They beat us and robbed us, but their main objective was to rape me.”
She added that they had approached police for help, but later said she was forced to remove the video from her page so as not to “disturb” the police investigation.
Fernanda told a Spanish broadcaster that the attack lasted two hours and that each of the men “took turns.”
“They raped me, they took turns while some watched and they stayed like that for about two hours,” he said last month.
According The TelegraphIndian authorities gave the couple only £9,500 as compensation for their troubles.
Fernanda said she thought she and her partner were going to ‘die’ in the March attack
Three men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a Spanish tourist are taken by police to be produced before the Dumka District Court in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, on Monday, March 4.
In April 2023, a 10-year-old girl was found dead in Jharkhand after an alleged gang rape.
Police said the body was found in the backyard of the girl’s house in Jharkhand’s Latehar district.
Chandwa Police Inspector Amit Gupta. saying The girl was last seen at a neighbor’s house, where a crowd had gathered following the sighting of a snake.
The girl was discovered the next morning in a “half-naked state.”
“Injury marks were also found on his body,” he said. “At first glance, it appears that the girl was gang raped before being murdered.”