Indore, March 22: A video from Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, of a rape victim's mother thrashing the accused in police custody has gone viral. In the video, the woman wearing a burqa is seen slapping and beating the man who is accused in her daughter's rape case. The police is also surrounding the woman and accused and the video seems to have been shot outside the police station.

The video shared by news agency ANI, shows the burqa clad woman repeatedly slapping the accused in her daughter's rape case and even snatched him back when the accused tried escaping, the video has gone viral:

Recently, increasing number of rape and molestation cases have been reported from the state of Madhya Pradesh. Indore itself has seen a number of such cases. Recently, three persons, including a woman, were arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl. The victim's body was found dumped in the city’s Kishengang area on March 13. According to police, the girl was raped and then strangulated. In another reported incident, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a mall in Indore on the International Women’s Day.

According to a report published in The Indian Express, in the year 2016, Madhya Pradesh had the highest number of rape cases reported among all the states in India where as Delhi reported most number of cases in Union Territories. The 2015 National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB)- the most recent data available, mentions that in 95 percent of all rape cases, the offender knew the victim or was a close relative.

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