Muzaffarnagar: Woman gangraped at gunpoint in front of husband, probe on
The woman said the alleged rapists "constantly threatened" to kill her child, and tied and beat her husband.
A woman has alleged that she was gangraped by four men at gunpoint in front for her husband, who she said was tied and beaten by her tormentors in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district.
And it gets worse. The men also "constantly threatened" to kill her child, she was quoted as saying.
A police official said an FIR had been registered, and that both the alleged victim and her husband underwent medical examination.
FIR has been registered, medical examination of both the victim and her husband being done; investigation underway: SP pic.twitter.com/Fygp8g4HCJ- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 6, 2017
The accused are yet to be identified, the police said. According to Superintendent of Police Ajay Sehdev, the woman and her husband were returning from a village with their three-month child on a motorbike, when the four men in a car intercepted them near Nirgajni village in the district. They pulled her off the bike and dragged her to a sugarcane field nearby. The four men then raped the woman at gunpoint and threatened her and her husband of dire consequences against disclosing the incident to anyone.
Police said that the accused beat her husband. A probe into the incident.
(With inputs from PTI)
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