Woman robbed, gang-raped on a motorway in Punjab

A woman was allegedly gang raped during a robbery bid in Gujjarpura on Wednesday.

Police said the victim was travelling with her children in a car when the vehicle stalled due to lack of petrol. She called her relative and sent him her location on the motorway. When the relative arrived on the location he saw the victim driving the car towards them with broken window panes.

The woman told them that she was waiting for the family to arrive to pick her and the children when two armed assailants attacked her.

One perpetrator hit the car with clubs and the other held them hostage at gunpoint. The attackers then took her and the children to a nearby forested area where they gang raped the victim. Later on, they robbed her of valuables and left her stranded.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2020.