The young victim is a Dalit, the lowest rung in the rigid Hindu caste system, who are disproportionately targeted for sexual violence in a country with high rates of crime against women.
“Forty-nine people have been taken into custody,“ Pathanamthitta district police official Nandakumar S told AFP.
Rajeev N, a lawyer who heads a local child welfare committee, told AFP that the woman’s parents were “unaware of their daughter’s nightmare”.
The Indian Express newspaper reported this week that one of the accused men blackmailed the woman with a video that he had recorded when they had “physical relations”.
A subsequent police investigation found that she had been gang-raped on at least five occasions, including once at a local hospital.
A court in the eastern city of Kolkata is this week expected to deliver its verdict against a man accused of raping and murdering a 31-year-old doctor last year.
The discovery of her bloodied body at a state-run hospital in August last year stoked nationwide anger and protests at the chronic issue of violence against women.
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