Tribal Girl Gang-raped By 20 Men In Front Of Her Boyfriend 

Dumka: A 20-year-old tribal woman was allegedly gang-raped by 18 to 20 youths aged between 18 and 22 years near a university campus at Dighi, 8km from Dumka, in Jharkhand, on Wednesday. "Six of the suspects have been nabbed so far," Dumka SP Mayur Patel said.

The victim was returning home on a motorcycle with her boyfriend, a non-tribal, from the university campus when they were intercepted by six youths on an abandoned stretch of road around 6:30pm. They thrashed the boy for having a relationship with a tribal girl, and asked him to shell out Rs5,000 as "fine" or hand over his cellphone, according to a report published in the Times of India. The group then called over a dozen more youths to join them.

Quoting the boyfriend's statement, the sources said the group forced the couple to strip and then held the boyfriend at knife-point and made him rape her. They then took turns to rape her in a field. "They then forced her to bathe in a pond to destroy any evidence," the victim's boyfriend has reportedly told police.