Deaf and mute teenager ‘gang-raped by two boys’ before their fathers hack to death girl’s mother 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 gang-raping her deaf and 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 murder was a brutal act of 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 fourteen-year-old boys are suspected of breaking open the lock of the woman’s home 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, according to the investigating officer.

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 allegedly had a long-running dispute with her.

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

The two boys allegedly broke the lock to enter the house and asked the mother to go check on her eldest, who was ‘up to something lewd’ at the party.

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

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

A complaint has been registered and an investigation initiated.

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

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

Fernanda, 28, and Vicente, 63, who were on their way to Nepal from India on separate motorcycles, were allegedly attacked by a group of seven after camping in a makeshift tent in the district.

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

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

She added that they had approached the police for help, but later said she was forced to remove the video from her site so as not to ‘disrupt’ the police investigation.

Fernanda told a Spanish television station that the attack lasted two hours and each of the men was ‘changed’.

“They raped me, they took turns while someone watched, and they went on like that for about two hours,” she said last month.

According to The telegraphthe couple were given just £9,500 as 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 brought by police to appear before the Dumka District Court in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, 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 Jharkhand’s Latehar district.

Chandwa Superintendent of Police 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 not discovered until the next morning in a ‘semi-naked state’.

“Injury marks were also found on her body,” he said. ‘Prima facie it appears that the girl was gang-raped before she was murdered.’