In a grim reminder of the horrific Delhi rape case, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, north Indian state, was gang-raped, killed and her body hanged from a tree in a mango orchard, Indian media reported on Monday.
Another woman was molested on Sunday by seven men in a moving bus in a small town of Indian Punjab.
Local police said the 32-year-old victim, who was a passenger of the Brahmaputra Mail that was travelling to the national capital, was dragged to the empty buggy and gang-raped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations. She was strangled and her body hanged from a tree. Police recovered the body and sent it to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for post-mortem.
The victim, who hails from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, took the train from Alipore to Delhi, along with her son. As the train was jam-packed, she tried to get down at Sahibganj but was prevented from doing so by co-passengers, Bhagalpur ASP Meenu Kumari said. When the train slowed down between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations, she jumped out. It is not clear why she took this step.
A group of inebriated people then dragged her to a nearby mango orchard and sexually assaulted her. Liquor bottles were found at the spot, Kumari said.
A railway ticket and a cell phone number of her village pradhan written on a piece of paper was recovered from the victim’s possession, police said.
