NEW DELHI – Indian woman was raped by six youths in Rajasthan’s Barandistrict who filmed the crime and uploaded the video on social media,police said on Saturday.
The crime was committed around a month ago but the victim lodged a reportin Mahila police station of Baran district after she came to know about thevideo being uploaded on social media, they said.
Police have booked the six persons under section 376 of the IPC and varioussections of the IT Act but none of the accused have been arrested so far.
The woman, who works as a labourer at a roadside dhaba in Kota, lodged acomplaint on March 5 against the six youths, SHO Mahila police station,Baran Anis Ahamed said.
The victim, in her complaint, alleged that around a month ago, when shereached Baran to visit her in-laws’ family, one of the accused, ChetanMeena (21), who was also familiar to her, took her on his motorbike to anisolated place near Samaspura village in pretext of dropping her to herdestination.
Five others joined Meena and they took turns to rape her, the victim said,alleging that the accused also filmed the crime on mobile.
They dropped her near her in-laws’ house the next day and threatened tokill her family members if she disclosed the matter to others.
She could gather the courage to file a police complaint only after she cameto know that the video had been uploaded on the internet and was beingcirculated throughout the area, the SHO said.
The victim’s statement would be recorded before a magistrate on Monday, theSHO said.
Further investigation into the matter has been handed over to the DSP,Baran, the SHO added.