Bengaluru, May 27: Five illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were arrested here for allegedly brutalising a woman by stripping and raping her, a video of which has gone viral.
“Based on a video clip, wherein one woman was subjected to physical abuse and torture by a group of people, five culprits including a woman, visible in the clip were immediately traced and secured by Bengaluru City police,” the Bengaluru police said in a release.
At present the victim is away in a neighbouring state and a police team has been dispatched to trace her, so that she could join the investigation.The police said all of them are from Bangladesh, who brutalised the victim over financial differences.
They had brought the victim to India for human trafficking. On the basis of the contents of the video clip and facts disclosed during preliminary interrogation of the secured persons, a case of rape, assault has been registered and other relevant provisions of law invoked against the accused, the release said.
According to sources from the police department, the video is claimed to have surfaced from ‘deep web’ and is now circulating through different digital platforms. “The victim was being raped, battered and had a glass bottle shoved into her private parts and all this was visible only because one of those monsters was recording the whole thing,” a source informed. (PTI)
