On Sunday, 28 March, a 21-year-old man allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district, following which the villagers publicly paraded both the accused and the survivor by tying them with ropes, police said, PTI reported.
As many as six people – the accused and five villagers – have been reportedly arrested. A video showing the survivor and the accused being tied with ropes, beaten and made to forcibly walk in public in the village amid slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ went viral on social media.
As per the PTI report, a senior police officer said that the 16-year-old girl was rescued by the police. Meanwhile, two cases were registered on the basis of the FIRs lodged by the survivor, Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Dilip Singh Bilwal said.