WhatsApp gangrape video: Supreme Court asks CBI to investigate - India Today

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the CBI to register a case and immediately investigate a video that went viral on WhatsApp showing a group of men taking turns as they sexually assault two women as they beg and plead the men to let them go.

"It is a serious issue and something needs to be done. It is quite clear this issue is extremely serious and of great public importance," the apex court said. It also sent a notice to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Delhi governments to look for the rapists in the video.

The six men can be seen smiling and laughing as they perpetrate the horrific crime. The police have not yet filed any complaints since neither the women nor the rapists have been identified and no one has come forward to lodge a complaint in the two cases.

Women's rights activist Sunitha Krishnan had put the video on YouTube and Facebook to help identify the alleged rapists. It is not known as to where the horrific crime took place and whether it was the same group of men who committed the two rapes.

Krishnan, who lives in Hyderabad, is a gang-rape survivor herself and campaigns against trafficking of women. "10 seconds into the video, I was overcome. I had to stop as I needed to throw up," she had told a TV channel.

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