Men gang-rape and brutally murdered woman after she threatened to tell the Police

An Indian woman was gang-raped and then brutally murdered by men who smashed her skull with bricks after she had threatened to inform authorities, police in the northern state of Haryana said on Monday.
Two men were arrested for rape and murder in Sonipat town, and six more were being investigated after the victim's mother accused them of involvement, said Ashwin Shenvi, superintendent of police.

The 23-year old woman, a labourer, was taken by the men at least one of whom knew her by car from near her home in Sonipat to the nearby city of Rohtak, where they raped her, Shenvi said.

"When she said to them she would complain, they hammered her skull in with bricks," he said. "The way that they brutalised her is horrific."

The woman had gone missing on May 9, and her decomposed and mutilated body was found in an open field in Rohtak two days later. Attempts were made to disfigure her completely to prevent identification of the victim, local media said citing a post-mortem report.

The mother of the victim had previously registered a complaint against one of the accused for pressuring her daughter into marrying him, but the disagreement was settled between the two parties, Shenvi said.

Sonipat is 44km north of India's capital, New Delhi.