MP: Woman tortured with burning cigarette butts, gang-raped in Indore district; hubby and 4 men held

Indore | Sunday | 16th January, 2022

Summary:

Indore, Jan 16 (PTI) A 32-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and tortured by her husband and four of his friends in Madhya Pradesh"s Indore district, police said on Sunday, adding that five accused were arrested.

The woman claimed that she was brutalised by her husband and others who performed unnatural sex and also singed her private parts with cigarettes.

They also threatened to kill her when she resisted the sexual assault, an official said quoting the FIR.

The alleged gang-rape occurred at a farmhouse under the Shipra police station area of Indore between November 2019 and October 2021, the official said.

He said the woman, hailing from Chhattisgarh, got married to an Indore-based man after meeting him on a matrimonial site.

However, the man is already married, the police sub-inspector said.