Deaf and mute teen is ‘gang-raped by two boys’ before their fathers hack the girl’s mother to death in revenge for telling police in India

Three men have been arrested in India for the murder of a mother who accused two boys of raping her deaf-mute teenage daughter.

The 50-year-old mother, who has not been named, was working in a field in Jharkhand when the fathers of the two 14-year-old boys allegedly hacked her to death with the help of a relative.

Police believe the killing was a brutal revenge after she confided in police following the alleged rape of her 19-year-old daughter.

“The motive appears to be revenge for the police action against the sons and the land dispute with the victim,” local police reported, adding that they had recovered a weapon.

Two 14-year-old boys are suspected of breaking the lock on the woman’s house in Gumla village while she was sleeping one night last month, before distracting her to kidnap her deaf-mute daughter.

They then dragged her to a school building and raped her, the investigating officer said.

The arrests were reported on Monday, a day after the brutal attack in Jharkhand.

The suspects include the two fathers of the two boys suspected of the rape attack and a third who is said to have had a long dispute with her.

An investigating officer said the woman had slept with her daughter at her home on March 13 while her eldest daughter was attending a wedding party.

The two boys allegedly broke the lock to gain access to the house and told the mother to go check on her eldest, who was “planning something indecent” at the party.

Investigators believe they dragged her other daughter from the home after she left and took her to a school building before attacking her.

The victim’s identity has not been released to protect her right to privacy.

A complaint has been registered and an investigation has been initiated.

Two minors are currently being held in an observation home, Times of India reported.

In March, a 28-year-old Spanish tourist and travel influencer said she was robbed and raped in Dumka, Jharkhand.

Fernanda, 28, and Vicente, 63, who traveled to Nepal from India on separate motorcycles, were reportedly attacked by a group of seven after setting up camp in a makeshift tent in the district.

Vicente said his “mouth was destroyed” when his attackers used a helmet and a rock to hit him.

Fernanda, who was seen with visible bruises on her face, said: “They beat and robbed us but their main aim was to rape me.”

She added that they had approached police for help, but later said she had to remove the video from her page so as not to “disrupt” the police investigation.

Fernanda told a Spanish broadcaster that the attack lasted two hours and that each of the men took turns working.

“They raped me, taking turns while some watched, and they stayed like that for about two hours,” she said last month.

According to The Telegraphthe couple was only given £9,500 in compensation for their troubles by the Indian authorities.

Fernanda said she thought she and her partner were “going to die” in the attack in March

Three men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a Spanish tourist are produced by police before the Dumka District Court in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, on Monday, March 4

In April 2023, a 10-year-old girl was found dead in Jharkhand after a suspected gang rape.

Police said the body was found in the backyard of the girl’s house in Latehar area of ​​Jharkhand.

Chandwa police inspector Amit Gupta said the girl was last seen at a neighbor’s house, where a crowd had gathered after a snake sighting.

The girl was only discovered the next morning in a ‘semi-naked state’.

“Injuries were also found on her body,” he said. “Prima facie, it appears that the girl was gang raped before being murdered.”