26-year-old vet who was gang-raped and burned to death 'trends' on porn site as most searched name
The entire country of India reeled in horror as the disturbing details of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian hit headlines after her burned and charred body was found by the police, but it appears that the depravity goes even further.
Even as politicians and media outlets condemned the horrific attack, thousands across the country went online to the most popular pornographic websites and perversely searched for the 26-year-old victim's name.
India Today reported that the veterinarian's name was trending on one of the most popular websites in India — which has different homepages for different countries, and where the homepage for each country lists the most popular videos for that particular region.
The victim's name was, in fact, the number one in the 'Trends' section, according to the outlet, despite the gruesome nature of her death that saw her abducted, gang-raped, smothered, and then set on fire by four men, aged between 20 and 24.
We had previously reported that the horrifying incident unfolded in Hyderabad after the victim, a veterinarian living in Shamshabad, left her home at around 5 pm on November 27, to visit a skin clinic in Gachibowli, about 16 miles away.
She was supposed to return home that same evening but found herself stalked by the four men after she stopped at the Tondupally Toll Plaza. The men, who had been drinking inside a truck, are said to have then made the plan of raping the victim, following which one of them went and punctured the back tire of her scooter.
A couple of hours later, when she returned, one of them approached her and offered to fix the tire, which was when she called her sister and informed her of the situation. The vet said she had been stopped from taking the vehicle to a repair shop.
"Please keep talking until my scooter comes back," she can be heard telling her sister in a recording. "They [the strangers] are all waiting outside. You please keep talking to me, I am scared."
She eventually hung up and promised to call back, but was abducted and taken to an isolated compound nearby. The men then snatched her phone, turned it off, forced her to drink alcohol, and gang-raped her.
She fell unconscious during the horrific attack, and when she eventually came back around, she was smothered to death. The men then retrieved gasoline from a nearby gas station and set her on fire, before dumping her body near an underpass near the Chadanpalli village in Rangareddy district.
The local government of the region has promised to try the case in a fast-track court, with protestors across the country demanding that the men be put to death.