The woman’s body was spotted by a passerby in the urban estate area of Rohtak on Thursday. Stray dogs had bitten away her face and lower portion of the body.
Sonipat : In a rerun of the infamous Delhi gangrape, a 23-year-old woman has been gang-raped and brutally murdered, with her head smashed with a brick, barely 70 kilometres from the national capital.
The woman was allegedly kidnapped from her home in Haryana’s Sonipat on Tuesday, and taken to the Rohtak district, the police said. There, she was first gang-raped and then hit repeatedly with a brick on her head, police officer Ajay Malik said.
The two men accused of killing the woman — Sumit and Vikas — have been arrested, the police officer said, adding that Sumit was an acquaintance of the woman.
The victim had allegedly refused a marriage proposal, following which the accused reached her home a week later with his friends. A heated argument broke out which resulted in the woman slapping him. In revenge, the boy along with his friends allegedly raped and murdered her.
The family of the victim said that on May 9, at least five to six youth abducted her from the gate of a private company where she worked.
The woman’s body was spotted by a passerby in the urban estate area of Rohtak on Thursday. Stray dogs had bitten away her face and lower portion of the body.
The victim’s parents have demanded that the rapists of their daughter be hanged. They allege neither the police nor anyone from the government has visited them so far. They had filed a missing report in Sonipat.
Meanwhile, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has expressed deep shock and outrage over the gang-rape and murder, and highlighted the need for “revisiting” the issue of women’s safety. “This savage and bone-chilling incident has shocked the conscience of the nation, reminding each one of us about the crying need for revisiting the important issue of women’s safety and security,” she said in a statement.
