Engineers couple ambushed, robbed and assaulted in Guna district forest
A pair returning from a temple near Hanuman Tekri in Guna district were stopped, robbed and the woman was gang-raped before the assailants fled.
Late Thursday evening, an engineer and his 26-year-old fiancée were returning from the Hanuman Tekri shrine, about 25 km from Guna district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh, when a group of men flagged them down near a highway petrol pump, claiming a flat tyre. The assailants seized the bike’s ignition, forced the couple into a roadside forest, and called additional accomplices. Inside the woods they beat the pair with wooden sticks, stole their cellphones and two-wheeler, and later the engineer was taken away while the woman was subjected to gang-rape.
The victim’s desperate shouts attracted a passerby who dialed the 112 emergency helpline. Police have formed a Special Investigation Team to track down the perpetrators, who escaped the scene.
Why it matters
The attack highlights serious safety concerns on rural roads in Madhya Pradesh and prompts a police investigation.
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