The 34-year-old lady who was raped and brutalised inside a stalled tempo in Sakinaka, suburban Mumbai, in the early hours of Friday has died at a nearby hospital.
The woman was sexually raped and tormented – an iron rod was put into her body – in a heinous crime that resembled the assault on a young medical student in Delhi in 2012.
She was discovered in a pool of blood on Khairani Road by a squad of police officers who were notified after the control room got an emergency call at 3.30 a.m. on Friday.
Day time visuals from the area show a busy main road, with more than a moderate amount of traffic buzzing up and down. Disturbing CCTV footage has also been secured by the police; grainy visuals seem to show a man standing over what looks like body lying on the ground.
The caller told the police a woman was being beaten by a man. She was rushed to the government-run Rajawadi Hospital.
A report said preliminary inquiries found bloodstains inside the tempo, which was parked by the roadside during the assault.
One accused – 45-year-old Mohan Chouhan – has been arrested and he had been arrested under charges of rape and attempt to murder.
Now that the woman has died, the charges will be revised to murder.
Mumbai Police are expected to hold a press conference at 3 pm.
