Mumbai gangrape:Female journalists raped by 5 men while talking on the phone with her mom

A mother's instinct knew something was wrong. But it could not avert the gangrape of her 22-year-old daughter. The photojournalist who got gangraped by five men in the heart of Mumbai on Thursday, received two phone calls from her mother. But with a broken beer bottle held to her neck, she was forced to talk calmly and pretend nothing was wrong.

In her statement to the police, the woman said as the five accused had surrounded her, her colleague tied up at the back, her mobile phone started ringing.

But something in her manner made her mother suspect that all was not well. She called again.

The two journalists had gone to a mill compound in Worli around 5.30 pm on an assignment. "Around 6.15 pm, when we were on our way back, we met two men. Claiming to be railway officials, they asked us to come and meet a senior official," the officer said, quoting the complaint.

The men said her colleague was involved in a case of rape and murder which took place in the same compound, and separated them on pretext of a separate inquiry.

The accused then threatened the woman with dire consequences if she told her colleague that she had been raped.

VIA