TAP TO UNMUTE "They hurled me at the wall like a ball", says rape survivor | Photo Credit: Indiatimes, Representative Image

With limb and hip injuries, a swollen knee and a fractured right hand, a 26-year-old woman crawled almost 250 metres from an abandoned building towards a bus stop on the outskirts of Bengaluru’s Anekal district. With almost no clothes on her back, the woman lay near a dustbin for about 36 hours before she could be rescued by emergency services.

The victim, who moved to Bengaluru 14 years ago after she lost her family in an earthquake, works as a dishwasher at a hotel for merely Rs 50 a day.

On the eve of November 23, six unidentified men groped her and dragged her to an abandoned structure near where she lives and gang-raped her. She also said in her statement that once the men raped her, they sat down drank beer and smoked cigarettes before leaving.

“Three men attacked me and hurled me at the wall like a ball. They hit my legs with stones even as they shot videos with their phones. I was crying in pain,” says the victim, currently being treated at Bengaluru's Bowring Hospital.

She told the Times of India that the accused raped her throughout the night and they abandoned her in a condition where she was barely able to walk.

"With hardly any clothes on my body, I crawled to the main road the next morning and sat near the bus stop the whole day. No one approached me and I was too scared to speak to anyone", she said.

The victim crawled to a tea shop nearby where she slept as dusk set in on November 24, only to crawl back to the bus stop the next morning where she was noticed by an activist who upon discovering her ordeal, immediately referred her to emergency services.

She was taken to the One Stop crisis centre set up by the government at Bowring Hospital for the rescue, medical and legal care of rape survivors. Doctors at the Bowring Hospital performed a surgery to fix her right hand on December 13 and she is currently recovering.

No arrests in connection with this case have been made by the Bengaluru police as of yet.

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