Five women from a non-profit conducting an awareness campaign in Jharkhand have been abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint. The men accompanying them have been thrashed. The incident took place on Tuesday afternoon at Kochang, around 50 km from state capital Ranchi, where the 11-member team had gone to hold a street play against human trafficking.
As the performance was in progress, a group of armed men came on bikes, beat up the men and took away the women at gunpoint. They were released in the jungle three hours later. The two nuns who had accompanied the women, however, were released unharmed.
The police have also confirmed that the rapists made a video and used it to threaten the women with exposure if they complained.
