20, Jan 2016

He father, a 50-year-old farmer, said, Every time I speak to her, she tells me that she does not want to live. Why did she not tell us what she was undergoing all these years?
Written by Aditi Vatsa | Muzaffarnagar | Updated: January 20, 2016 9:21 am
Two days ago, the family shifted her to a relative’s house in Muzaffarnagar town, said the brother.
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman from a Muzaffarnagar village in western Uttar Pradesh, whose alleged gangrape in 2013 was recorded on video and circulated on WhatsApp last week, tried to commit suicide four times in the last seven days, her family members told The Indian Express.
According to her father and younger brother, the suicide attempts happened after she lodged an FIR on January 16, soon after the video was circulated, naming two accused and claiming that she was being blackmailed, and that her marriage had ended as a result. Later, the woman named four others involved in the case.
Two days ago, the family shifted her to a relative’s house in Muzaffarnagar town, said the brother.
“Ever since she told us and the police about the rape and blackmail, which had been going on for around three years, the entire family has been distraught. We sent her to a relative’s house two days ago where someone is by her side all the time. After the video was circulated, she has been extremely disturbed. She tried to take her life four times. Once she ran to the terrace and was about to jump from the building. We managed to save her,” said her brother.