A mentally challenged woman in Kochi, Kerala, was brutally assaulted and dragged along by two women. The ghastly incident was caught on camera and the video has since then gone viral.

The incident took place near Vypin in Kochi. The mentally challenged woman received a cruel fit of rage from two of her female neighbours who thrashed her, devoid of any sense of empathy.

The victim was dragged and beaten in the presence of several onlookers who stayed indifferent. The victim was left to her own devices as the hard-heartedness of the crowd could not save her from the two female neighbours who attacked her with a stick.

Cane was not the only instrument of persecution since one of the women also used a hot spatula to inflict pain on the victim. A local media report suggests that the attackers escaped soon.

The mentally challenged woman in Kochi was thrashed with a cane and hot spatula by her female neighbours.

According to another media report, the victim's daughter, who is a teenager, also suffered injuries in the assault.

The mentally challenged victim stayed in a colony near Vypin and the neighbours who assaulted her had apparently registered complaints with the police on multiple occasions.

The neighbours had demanded that she should be taken for treatment.

After the shocking video was aired on multiple local channels, the police arrested three women identified as Liji Augustine, Teena Biju and Molly Sebastian.

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