“They asked if we eat beef. We said we don’t, but they insisted we do and that was why we were being punished.”
This was the statement of one of the two women sexually assaulted in Haryana’s Mewat almost two weeks ago.
A report on popular news channel NDTV on its website says the woman said so in presence of activist Shabnam Hashmi in Delhi. The woman, 20, and her 14-year-old cousin were sexually assaulted by several men in their Mewat home on August 24 while their uncle and aunt were tied up and then beaten to death.
“The main motive seems to have been rape,” a cousin of the women told NDTV at that farm where the attack took place. “The four arrested men are known troublemakers in the village and had been seen drinking the morning of the attack”.
Another report from Catch News says at least one of the four men arrested in the case claims to be associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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