Woman Gang-Raped By 13 Men On ‘Orders Of Indian Village Elders’!

Suspects in the gang-rape case are led away by police (Picture: AFP / Getty)

A woman is fighting for her life after she was gang-raped by 13 men as ‘punishment’ for falling in love with a man from a different religion, police say.

The 20-year-old was reportedly attacked on the orders of a ‘kangaroo court’ made up of village elders in the state of West Bengal on January 20.

‘People from the village, men my father’s age, and those who I knew as neighbours, as uncles and brothers raped me,’ she told police.

The woman said the council in Subalpur village ordered her to pay a fine for having an affair with the man.

A 20-year-old Indian woman said she was gang-raped on the orders of a village council (Picture: AP)

When her family said they were too poor to pay, the council allegedly ordered the gang-rape.

The woman’s mother said that ‘the crime was committed by our own people’.

She added: ‘They tortured my daughter and dumped her home late at night. We were threatened not to go to police.’

Police have arrested the 13 accused men.

A number of attacks over the past year have sparked widespread outrage over chronic sexual violence in India and government failures to protect women.

A Metro UK Report.