Mumbai Woman Who Was Raped, Brutally Assaulted With Rods In Private Parts Dies

Mumbai Police have said that a woman who was admitted in a civic hospital after she was brutally raped and brutalized with rods has died.

The woman said to be around 30-year-old was raped and then beaten with a rod, the rapist allegedly shoved a rod in her private parts, dumped her body on the desolate road before fleeing the spot.

The incident that took place on Thursday night in Sakinaka area of north-west Mumbai was alerted to the police by a watchman who heard the cry for help from a parked tempo van on Khairani Road.

The police had found her in a pool of blood, in an unconscious state, and shifted her to BMC's Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, where she died on Saturday during treatment.

Sakinaka Police Station Senior Police Inspector Balwant Deshmukh said that the accused, identified Mohan Chavan, was arrested within hours.

? He has been booked under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 376 (rape).??

On Saturday, the National Commission for Women (NCW)took note of the incident.

NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma took serious cognizance of "this barbaric incident where a woman was raped and brutalized" in Mumbai.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has also taken grave note of the incident and is discussing it with concerned officials, while Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said he was "shocked" over the development.

Terming the incident as "sad and shocking", Home Minister Diip Walse-Patil said that the arrested accused would be given the most stringent punishment.

The incident was strongly condemned by Deputy Chairperson of Maharashtra Legislative Council Neelam Gorhe, Shiv Sena spokesperson Manisha Kayande, many women activists and commoners, with many demanding the immediate passing of the Shakti Act which proposes death penalty for rape.

The brutality of the crime was reminiscent of the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape where a paramecia student was sexually abused and brutally violated by six people on a moving bus.