2 Teens gang-raped in Front Of friends in Delhi, 4 Detained

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Sep 16, 2016: Two girls, 18 and 17, were gang-raped in front of their male friends in Delhi last night, an incident that once again calls into question women’s safety in the capital four years after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student.

The girls were out on a walk with two boys around 8.30 pm, in an isolated patch near a metro station, when they were attacked.

Four men allegedly saw a couple in that group together and thrashed the boys.

The attackers then took turns to rape the girls in front of their friends, said a senior police officer.

They threatened the four teens and warned them against going to the police.

A medical examination has confirmed that the girls were raped.

The police say the four men have been detained but they are not ruling out the involvement of a fifth attacker.

Security in Delhi and other cities was widely debated after a physiotherapy student on her way home from a movie with her friend was brutally gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus and then dumped on the roadside. The 23-year-old died 13 days later as protests raged across the nation. What came to be known as the "Nirbhaya gang-rape" provoked sweeping changes in national laws on crime against women.