Indore HORROR: Army officers attacked, held hostage, their female friend gang-raped near Mhow picnic spot

According to Badgonda police station in-charge Lokendra Singh Hirore, the Indian Army officers were undergoing a Young Officers (YO) course at the Infantry School in Mhow cantonment town.

In what was supposed to be a joyous get-together of friends in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, two Indian Army officers, aged 23 and 24, along with two female companions, were subjected to a traumatic ordeal by unidentified assailants. The officers were brutally assaulted and one of their two female companions was raped at gunpoint by unidentified men. The attackers appeared to have set upon the group, which was out on a picnic, with the intention of robbing them near the picnic spot on Mhow-Mandleshwar road. The assailants, armed with guns, held the woman officer and her companion captive in their car.

“They started beating up one of the officers sitting in a car and also the women”, ANI quoted Lokendra Singh Hirore as saying.

According to Badgonda police station in-charge Lokendra Singh Hirore, the Indian Army officers were undergoing a Young Officers (YO) course at the Infantry School in Mhow cantonment town. They had gone with two women friends to a spot near the firing range at Chhoti Jam in the afternoon.

Suddenly, they were surrounded by eight men armed with pistols, knives, and sticks. The men beat up the trainee officers and the women before robbing them of their money and belongings. The situation escalated when the attackers took one officer and a woman hostage, sending off the other officer and a woman to fetch a ransom of Rs. 10 lakh.

One of them managed to dial his senior officers but by the time police arrived from Mhow, 30km away, the woman had already been gang-raped, as per a report in TOI.  The victims were immediately taken to Mhow Civil Hospital for a thorough medical examination at 6.30 am.