Outrage in India after woman allegedly raped twice by same men
Outrage in India after woman allegedly raped twice by same men
By Sugam Pokharel and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Family of alleged victim says it was offered money to drop case but refused
Police: Woman says she was attacked by the same men who assaulted her in 2013
Rohtak, India (CNN)A passer-by found the Indian student unconscious in the bushes of a park outside Rohtak and took her to a hospital. The 21-year-old later told police that she was not only drugged and gang-raped, but that two of her attackers drugged and raped her three years earlier. The woman, a Dalit, the lowest caste in Indian society, was returning home from college, where, according to a cousin, she excels in math and is studying to become a government worker with hopes of one day advocating for women's rights.
That's when the five men allegedly snatched her, said Pushpa Khatri, deputy superintendent of Rohtak police, which are leading the investigation. "They were in the car. I saw them and got scared. They forced me into the car and then they strangled me," the woman told CNN affiliate News 18 of the July 13 attack in the northern state of Haryana.
The woman is in stable condition at a Rohtak medical institute but remains in a state of shock, her cousin said. CNN is not identifying her cousin because Indian law prohibits the disclosure of information that would identify a rape victim. CNN also has its own policy against identifying rape victims.
On Tuesday, police announced they had arrested three suspects. It's not clear if the alleged perpetrators from the 2013 attack were among the three arrested. Police said they are working to find the other two suspects, along with the car used to abduct the woman.
Security doesn't stop protesters from entering a hospital where a woman is treated in an alleged rape.
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