Filmed by the attackers themselves - indicating that they wanted to make a name for themselves - the videos show the six men waiting outside the room of the lodge in Hanagal Taluk of Haveri District. After recording the room number, they knock on the door and wait. When the door is opened by a man, they barge in and head straight to the woman, who tries to cover her face with a burqa.
Muttering expletives, the men hit the woman so hard that she falls to the floor. The man is also assaulted and then caught by two or three of the attackers when he tries to run out of the room. One of the attackers corners the woman near the bed while another hits her and drags her to the floor again.
Another video, which appears to be shot outside the lodge after the attack, shows the woman desperately attempting to cover her face but the men lift her hijab and film her.
The couple filed a complaint at the Hanagal police station and two out of the six men, who are from the minority community, have been arrested.
"The attack took place on January 7 at Nalhara Cross in Hanagal. The six accused, who are from the minority community, have been charged with attempt to murder, kidnapping and outraging the modesty of a woman. Two of the six have been arrested and we are trying to locate the other four," a police officer said.
In the other incident on Tuesday, seven men were arrested for beating up two cousins in Belagavi after mistaking them for an interfaith couple. Police had said the men, who were also from the minority community, continued to beat up the boy and the girl even after they said they were cousins.In a shocking incident, a victim released a video on Thursday in which she said that she was repeatedly gang-raped by moral policing vigilantes in Haveri district of Karnataka.
The homemaker was dragged out of a hotel after being seen with a person from another religion and beaten up in Hangal town on January 8. Police says Two people have been arrested.
In a shocking case of assault and invasion of privacy, six men barged into the room of a lodge in Karnataka and thrashed a couple for the 'crime' of being together despite practising different faiths.
The victim said that when she was at the hotel, a gang of five to six men barged inside, questioned her and took her on their bikes forcibly.
They took her to an isolated place and assaulted her brutally, and later, all of them raped her. Later, they asked her to sit in a car and the driver also raped her.
Her ordeal did not end here. She was taken to two to three places and gang-raped. The accused later took her to a National Highway and she boarded a bus.
"I want them to be punished," she demanded in the video in an appeal to the police.
The husband of the victim has also come before the media and stated that his wife was gang-raped by the gang of vigilantes.
"They had kidnapped and inhumanly attacked my wife. She had opened up about this brutality with one of the family members. She had not told me," he stated.
Reacting to the development, Haveri SP, Anshu Kumar Srivastava, stated that based on the video statement by the victim, a case would be filed and investigated.
Earlier, the woman had gone to the police station in Hangal and made a statement before senior officers and policewomen.
"The gang-rape matter was not reported at that time. Now that she has come out and narrated the incident, her statement would be recorded and stringent action would be initiated in the case," Srivastava stated.
Launching a scathing attack on Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the BJP state unit on Thursday questioned his silence on alleged gang-rape of the woman by moral policing vigilantes of her community in Haveri district.
"Is it because the accused persons belong to the minority community? You must make your stand clear," Bommai said.
