Haveri hotel room moral policing: Three arrested in alleged gang rape, BJP targets Congress govt's ‘silence’
Haveri that saw six to seven men barge into a hotel room where a 26-year old woman and a 40 year old man had checked in took a new turn when the woman had alleged that she was raped by the gang, according to media reports. The Karnataka police had already nabbed two of the suspects, and a third was to be taken into custody after he recovered from an accident. However, according to an NDTV report, the police were uninformed about the rape allegations.
The gang of men allegedly barged into a hotel room and assaulted an interfaith couple during their stay in Hanagal Taluk of Haveri district. At 1 pm, a 26-year-old married woman who belongs to a minority community checked into the hotel room with a KSRTC driver aged 40, with whom she has been in a relationship for the past three years, according to Karnataka Police. The entire assault which happened inside the hotel room was filmed by the gang.
The videos later became viral after they got circulated on social media platforms. In one of the purported videos, six men could be seen knocking on the door of a room. When a man opens the door, the assailants could be seen barging in and heading towards the woman.
The gang verbally abused the couple, assaulted them and filmed the woman while she tried to cover her face with a burqa. According to police, when the couple entered the hotel, they were spotted by an auto rickshaw driver. Seeing the woman clad in a burqa with a man from another community, he immediately alerted the gang of local men who also belonged to the minority community, reports PTI.
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