Bengaluru: Bengaluru police arrested twelve people in connection with the brutal gangrape and torture case of a woman from Bangladesh. Among the 12 accused two are women and the others are mens who belongs to Bangladesh.

The rape survivor was allegedly trafficked from Bangladesh by a network of human traffickers active in her country, Assam, West Bengal, Telangana and Karnataka, three years ago, police said. She was then forced into prostitution by the gang, they added.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant in a tweet on Thursday said that the investigation has been completed in a short span of five weeks and also submitted the chargesheet to the Court. He lauded the investigative team and also sanctioned a reward of ₹ 1 lakh to the team for their work, he tweeted. The incident took in place in May 2021.

The Bengaluru police in a statement said that as per information revealed so far, all of them are part of the same group and believed to be from Bangladesh. Due to financial differences, the culprits brutalized the victim who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking.