Five activists putting on a play about the horror of human trafficking were allegedly abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand this week, police said on Friday.
The women, who work with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) supported by local Christian missionaries, were staging street plays against human trafficking in Khunti, a predominantly tribal district on Tuesday, when they were attacked.
“As the play was in progress, a group of six armed men came on bikes and beat up the men accompanying them.
“They then took the women away at gunpoint to the forests nearby where they were sexually assaulted,’’ a local police officer said requesting anonymity.
The victims, aged between 19 and 35, were later released.
They filed a police complaint on Wednesday, while police arrested one of the suspects on Thursday and detained several more for questioning.
Medical tests to confirm the sexual assault…
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