INDORE: A 45-year-old tribal mother of two died after being allegedly gangraped and brutalised in a village of Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa, leaving her so badly injured that her intestines were protruding when she was found Saturday afternoon bleeding and unconscious. Two men last seen with the victim have been arrested, DIG Siddharth Bahuguna said.
The savage assault, reminiscent of 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder, took place in a village around 170km from Indore after the woman returned from a wedding late Friday with one of the suspects, identified as Hari Palvi.
"After the wedding, she and Hari escorted a woman relative till her village. When she didn't return home that night, her family assumed she had stayed back. We suspect the woman went to Hari's house, where they had some drinks with another suspect, Sunil Korku," said ASP Rajesh Raghuwanshi.
Investigators quoted Hari's mother as saying she woke up to sounds of someone whimpering in the courtyard and stepped out to find the victim bleeding and in pain. She then collapsed, briefly regaining consciousness once before passing out again.
A neighbour called the woman's family and they took her home, barely half a kilometre away, instead of a doctor. She died between 1.30pm and 2pm, after which police were informed, Raghuwanshi said.
Postmortem revealed that the victim had been brutalised with a sharp, hard object that caused fatal internal injuries. "The preliminary postmortem report confirms grievous trauma that ripped internal organs. Based on this, a case of gangrape and murder was registered against Hari (40) and Sunil (30), both labourers from the same village," the ASP said.
According to the family, the woman was carrying Rs 20,000 - savings handed to her by her younger son and daughter, who had recently returned from Goa after a working stint with a road construction company there. The family suspects she may have been robbed before being sexually assaulted and tortured.
Sources said scratches and signs of the woman being dragged through the ground were found on the body. "Something terrible has happened to me, I will not survive. Sunil and Hari did this," the woman was quoted as telling her family when she regained consciousness for a bit.
The savage assault, reminiscent of 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder, took place in a village around 170km from Indore after the woman returned from a wedding late Friday with one of the suspects, identified as Hari Palvi.
"After the wedding, she and Hari escorted a woman relative till her village. When she didn't return home that night, her family assumed she had stayed back. We suspect the woman went to Hari's house, where they had some drinks with another suspect, Sunil Korku," said ASP Rajesh Raghuwanshi.
Investigators quoted Hari's mother as saying she woke up to sounds of someone whimpering in the courtyard and stepped out to find the victim bleeding and in pain. She then collapsed, briefly regaining consciousness once before passing out again.
A neighbour called the woman's family and they took her home, barely half a kilometre away, instead of a doctor. She died between 1.30pm and 2pm, after which police were informed, Raghuwanshi said.
Postmortem revealed that the victim had been brutalised with a sharp, hard object that caused fatal internal injuries. "The preliminary postmortem report confirms grievous trauma that ripped internal organs. Based on this, a case of gangrape and murder was registered against Hari (40) and Sunil (30), both labourers from the same village," the ASP said.
According to the family, the woman was carrying Rs 20,000 - savings handed to her by her younger son and daughter, who had recently returned from Goa after a working stint with a road construction company there. The family suspects she may have been robbed before being sexually assaulted and tortured.
Sources said scratches and signs of the woman being dragged through the ground were found on the body. "Something terrible has happened to me, I will not survive. Sunil and Hari did this," the woman was quoted as telling her family when she regained consciousness for a bit.
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