Nirbhaya like horror returns: Tribal woman gang-raped & brutalised in Madhya Pradesh, dies | Indore News
INDORE: In a rerun of the Nirbhaya horror, a tribal woman was gangraped and tortured so brutally that she died on Saturday afternoon. Savaged with a wooden object or a rod, her intestines were protruding when she was found bleeding, unconscious, and taking her last breaths in a village in Khandwa on Saturday afternoon.Two men, who were the last to be seen with her, have been arrested, said DIG Siddharth Bahuguna, adding: “The accused had tortured the woman and damaged her private parts.”The blood-curdling crime took place in a village in Khalwa region, around 50km from the district headquarters and 170km from Indore.The woman, a 45-year-old mother of two, had set out to attend a wedding in the village on Friday night.“After the wedding celebration, she set out on Friday night to drop off a female relative along with one of the accused, Hari, at a nearby field, just half a kilometre from her home. When she didn’t return that night, her family assumed she had stayed back with them. The woman went to Hari’s home where they consumed alcohol along with co-accused Sunil,” said ASP Raghuwanshi.According to police, Hari’s mother claimed that they were sleeping inside their home on Friday night. On Saturday morning, when she woke up, she heard someone whimpering and stepped out to see who it was. To her horror, she saw the woman in agony, bleeding and barely able to hold herself up.She said she was feeling dizzy and asked in a faint whisper if she could lie down. The next moment, she collapsed in the courtyard, unconscious. The neighbour called the woman’s family members.“They took her to their home but did not take her to hospital although she was bleeding excessively. She died around 1:30-2pm after which the family members dialled 100 and informed police. The body was taken to a hospital for post-mortem examination,” said ASP Raghuwanshi.Preliminary medical examination revealed she had been brutalised with a sharp or hard object and suffered terrible internal injuries.Gang-raped tribal woman’s body sent to hosp in tractor Additional SP Rajesh Raghuwanshi said, “A short post-mortem report has confirmed grievous internal trauma to the private parts. Based on this, a case of gang rape and murder has been registered against Hari Palvi, 40, and Sunil Korku, 30, residents of the same village who work as labourers.” One of the doctors on the post-mortem panel told TOI on condition of anonymity, “The woman had suffered vaginal tear in a way that her intestinal contents had come out. She had suffered heavy blood loss due to intestinal bleeding. Her uterus and bladder were intact but the pouch containing the uterus was ripped. It is suspected that a hard object like a rod or a stick was used. Marks of dragging and scratches were also found on the body.“Family members told police that the woman briefly regained consciousness and told them, “Something terrible has happened to me, I will not survive. Sunil and Hari did this.”Her son said they were initially unaware of the extent of her injuries. It was only when his wife checked on her that they realized she was bleeding profusely from her private parts. After some time, she gasped and died.Her body was transported to hospital on a tractor.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, where they work with a road construction company. The family suspects that along with the brutal assault, she may have been robbed as well.(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
