On Thursday, a video of a young girl being tortured and assaulted by five men was doing rounds on social media. In the video, five unidentified men are seen torturing and thrashing a young girl.
The victim in theincident and the perpetrators have been identified as Bangladeshi residents bythe Police in Bengaluru and Dhaka. The arrested accused are Sagar,23, MohammedBaba Seikh,30, Ridoy Babo,25, Hakil,23, and the identity of the woman has notbeen revealed by the Police.
Reportedly, all,including the victim were illegal migrants from Bangladesh and were included inthe prostitution.
Police said that thepicture of one accused matched a Facebook profile picture, which helped thepolice in identifying the suspects.
One of the accused hasbeen identified as a resident of the Mogbazar area, where he is popular asTikTok or Hirody Babu. When police showed the video, his mother identified himas a 26-year-old Rifatul Islam Hridoy.
After the horrifying incident went viral on the internet, on Thursday Bangaluru Police registeredthe case against the four men and a woman, at the Ramamurthy Nagar PoliceStation.
Kamal Pant, BengaluruIPS tweeted late on Thursday and said, “Based on the contents of the viralvideo and preliminary investigation, a case of rape and assault has beenregistered against six-person, including two women at ramamurthyngrps.”
He further tweetedabout the efforts been made to find the victim and said, “A police team hasbeen deputed to an adjoining state to trace the victim so that she could jointhe investigation.”
He added, “Accordingto the information revealed so far, all of them are part of the same group andare believed to be from Bangladesh. The victim who is also a Bangladeshi wasbrought to India for trafficking and was tortured and brutalized due tofinancial matters.”
He also said, "The investigation is being carried with full earnestness and under the supervision of senior officers."
Deputy Commissioner ofPolice from Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Mohammad Sahidullah said that the victimin the video has been identified as the resident of Mogbazar, Dhaka,Bangladesh.
As per the reports,for the past few months, the girl was getting her documents ready as she wantedto travel to Saudi Arabia but was missing for nearly three months. Bangladeshiauthorities suspected that the victim is in India.
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Earlier on Thursday,Assam Police had also registered a case and had promised to reward handsomelyto the one who would provide any lead. Many assumed that the suspects in thevideo are from Nagaland and the highly circulated video is related to thesuicide of a Nagaland woman in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
But it was cleared by Union Minister KiranRijiju and Special Commission of Delhi Police Robin Hibu that the viral videoof a girl from Noth-East being brutally raped and tortured by four men and one woman is not related to the Jodhpur suicide case.