Four men gangrape mentally disabled woman in Tamil Nadu’s Chengelpet; 3 held, 1 absconding
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Four men gangraped a mentally disabled woman in a village in Tamil Nadu’s Chengelpet district. Police have arrested three accused in the case and a hunt in on to nab the fourth man who is absconding.
Tamil Nadu Police arrested three men, and are hunting a fourth absconding accused, for the gang rape of a 31-year-old mentally disabled woman. The crime took place on Wednesday night, May 18, in a village in Chengelpet district.
According to the police, the victim had been intellectually disabled since his childhood. Her parents were farm workers, who used to leave her alone at home. The four men, who are from the same village as the victim, were aware of this, reported The Times of India.
Police said that they were drunk when they barged into her house and gagged her to prevent her from raising an alarm.
They carried her out and took her to the house of one of the accused. “They took her to the terrace of the accused’s house and gangraped her,” said a senior police officer.
However, a local woman, who heard the cries of the victim, came in search of her and raised an alarm when she caught the four accused in the act of sexually abusing her. Within seconds of her alerting others in the locality, the four men had fled the house.
The victim’s neighbours, who rushed to help her, noticed she was writhing in pain. They took her to the Chengelpet government hospital for treatment.
When the survivor explained what had happened to some of the women, they alerted her parents, who, in turn, informed the police. “The woman has suffered several internal injuries. She was not able to realise she had been raped. Her condition is pathetic,” said the officer.
