By Shinjinee Majumder

Trigger Warning: Rape

A 28-year-old Spanish travel vlogger was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in Jharkhand’s Dumka on Friday, March 1. The victim and her partner were headed towards Bhagalpur via Dumka and had set up a tent in the Hansdiha police station area on the night of the incident. The victim posted a video on Instagram where she alleged that the seven men had assaulted them and robbed them. In the video, the couple also said, “They attacked us, beat us, put a knife to our necks and said they were going to kill us…There were seven people…”

The First Information Report reveals that the couple had pitched a tent in a forested hilly area in Kumrahat village, one kilometre from the main road. At first, three men started quarrelling with her partner before assaulting him and tying him up. The other four allegedly forcefully picked her up after showing her a dagger. She was allegedly thrown on the ground, kicked, punched and repeatedly raped by all seven men. She also alleged that the men were inebriated. The incident took place between 7:30 pm and 10 pm.

As of March 6, eight men have been arrested in the case, although the victim had stated in the FIR that seven people were involved. “The eighth person is the one who assisted the seven others in the crime,” Jarmundi SDPO stated.

Three men were initially arrested and sent to judicial custody by a court on Sunday, March 3. After news of their arrest broke, several Right Wing social media users claimed that the three were ‘Rice bag converts’, a derogatory term used to describe Christians.

BJP leader and ex-MLA from Bodh Gaya Hari Manjhi took to X (Twitter) to claim that the arrested persons used to work for a Christian missionary. “What faith or religion do people have who are sold for sacks of rice? They all should be given the death sentence”, he stated. (Archive)

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