HAVERI: With the arrest of three extra individuals by the Karnataka police in reference to the Hangal alleged gang rape by ethical police vigilantes, the variety of arrests made within the case rose to 14, the police stated on Monday.
Twenty six-year-old Ismail Hubballi, 27-year-old Riyaz Savikere and 24-year-old Niyaz Dargah had been arrested on Sunday. The state authorities had come below stress because the Bharatiya Janata Occasion had launched a collection of assaults on the Congress authorities and charged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s authorities is hushing up the sufferer and the case as nicely.
The Karnataka BJP unit had staged an enormous protest in Haveri led by Chief of the Opposition R. Ashoka and former CM Basavaraj Bommai and demanded that the probe be handed over to a Particular Investigation Staff (SIT).
The sufferer of ethical policing had launched a video on January 11 through which she had stated that she was repeatedly raped by vigilantes in Haveri district of Karnataka.
The homemaker was dragged out of a resort after being seen with an individual from one other faith and overwhelmed up in Hangal city on January 8.
The sufferer who belongs to the minority group said that when she was on the resort, a gang of 5 to 6 males barged inside, questioned her and forcibly took her away on their bikes.
They took her to an remoted place and assaulted her brutally and later all of them raped her. They requested her to get right into a automobile and the motive force additionally raped her.
Her ordeal didn’t finish right here. She was taken to 2 to a few different locations and gang raped. The accused later took her to the nationwide freeway the place she boarded a bus.
“I would like them to be punished, ” she demanded within the video in an attraction to the police.
The sufferer’s husband additionally appeared earlier than the media and said that his spouse was gang-raped by the vigilantes.
“They kidnapped and inhumanly attacked my spouse. She revealed this brutality to a member of the family. She had not informed me, ” he said.