Delhi police have arrested 16 people, including nine women and a minor, after the brutal gang rape and torture of a young woman.<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old mother-of-one was gang raped and tortured before being paraded into a crowd that attacked her.<\/p>\n
The woman was reportedly abducted from her home by four men and raped.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s head was shaved, her face blackened with soot, and a garland of shoes put around her neck as she was hit and paraded through the streets.\u00a0 Videos of the torture has gone viral, causing an outrage.<\/p>\n
The gang rape was allegedly an act of revenge by the family of a teenage boy who committed suicide last November after the woman, who is married and has a three-year-old son, rejected him.<\/p>\n
The boy’s family had reportedly threatened the woman before, forcing her to move home.<\/p>\n
The victim’s sister, 18, said the teenage boy had fallen in love with her and was always calling her to leave her husband.<\/p>\n
The boys family blamed the 20-year-old for his death.<\/p>\n
Responding to the video, women’s rights activist Yogita Bhayana said: ‘The incident in Delhi’s Kasturbanagar left me speechless.<\/p>\n
‘Some women kept walking her around for two hours! All the women involved must be arrested and severely punished.’<\/p>\n
The city’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the attack was ‘shameful’.<\/p>\n
The victim is thought to be in a stable condition and is being guarded by police in a safe house in Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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