Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police have arrested six people including a woman in a case involving the rape and torture of a woman. A video clip of a woman being tortured and raped that went viral in Assam led to the arrest of the perpetrators who are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
The gut-wrenching video shows that these 6 Bangladeshi immigrants brutalised the victim by stripping and raping her.
"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.
However, the police further said that there were 6 culprits including a woman who have been arrested
The police said, "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. 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 police sources, the video is claimed to have surfaced from the '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 told PTI.
The video believed to have been shot months ago surfaced in Bangladesh for the first time after which the Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Mohammad Sahidulla took up the case, sources said.
During the investigation in Bangladesh, one of their accomplices was caught and interrogated.
He told the local police that the video was shot somewhere in India.
The incident and the video generated outrage, especially in the northeast. After watching the video it was assumed that the survivor was from that part of the country and the Assam police had sought information about the accused.
"These images are of 5 culprits who are seen brutally torturing & violating a young girl in a viral video. The time or place of this incident is not clear. Anyone with information regarding this crime or the criminals may please contact us. They will be rewarded handsomely," their post on Twitter read
(With PTI inputs)