A Rohtak court announces death by hanging for seven accused of raping and murdering a Nepalese girl on February 4, 2015. A juvenile, also accused in the matter, is in the juvenile court.


The eight men were arrested in February in the brutal rape and murder of a mentally challenged Nepalese woman in Rohtak, a crime that caused outrage and revulsion across the country after her body was found with blades and stones shoved inside it. An autopsy had established that her private parts were torn by the ferocity of the assault. The men, all in their twenties, belonged to Gaddi Kheri village, located six kilometers from Rohtak.


The 28-year-old woman, who was living with her sister at Chinyot Colony in Rohtak while undergoing treatment at a hospital, was reported missing on February 1. After her mutilated body was found three days later in a field along the Rohtak-Hisar highway, an autopsy confirmed rape and multiple injuries to the head, chest and thighs. The autopsy report stated that blades and stones had been shoved into the body, said doctors of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak. Dr S K Dhattarwal, who led the team that performed the autopsy, said the woman was attacked so brutally that her intestines were damaged.