{"id":299054,"date":"2018-06-23T02:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=299054"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:57:33","slug":"5-women-activists-gang-raped-at-gunpoint-in-jharkhand-assault-filmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/5-women-activists-gang-raped-at-gunpoint-in-jharkhand-assault-filmed\/","title":{"rendered":"5 women activists gang-raped at gunpoint in Jharkhand, Assault filmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five women activists between the ages 20 to 35 were gang-raped at gunpoint in Jharkhand. They were abducted by unidentified men when they were performing a street play raising awareness about human trafficking at Kochang\u00a0<\/span>in Khunti District on June 19 afternoon, police said. According to police rapists also filmed the acts of sexual assault to black mail them.<\/span><\/p>\n

A.V. Homkar, Ranchi range deputy inspector general, reportedly said, \u201cThe survivors, engaged with an NGO supported by Christian missionary, were abducted by motorcycle-borne armed men while they were performing a street play at RC Mission School. They were forced to sit inside cars, taken to a nearby secluded place and raped”<\/span><\/p>\n

According to reports the five women taken captive also had two nuns and they were released unharmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The police have detained nine individuals for questioning and that a medical board has been formed and three teams also had been formed to investigate the matter,” local police office Ashwini Kumar Sinha reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We are not ruling out the possibility of the involvement of trafficking gangs and are investigating all aspects,” Sinha said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five women activists between the ages 20 to 35 were gang-raped at gunpoint in Jharkhand. They were abducted by unidentified men when they were performing a street play raising awareness about human trafficking at Kochang\u00a0in Khunti District on June 19 afternoon, police said. According to police rapists also filmed the acts of sexual assault to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[1222,955,2836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299391,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299054\/revisions\/299391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}