RAZDAN: That is what the police report says, and they're really very horrifying details. And as you mentioned, there were other women who were abused, but others were not. I understand that at least one of the women was, in fact, gang raped. MARTIN: And forgive me for being very specific about this. But what has caused outrage in India is the fact that this video of their assault surfaced 48 hours ago, and the police and the state government of Manipur have only stepped in to make arrests after outrage on social media and after India's Supreme Court stepped in and said that it would act if the government did not. So it wasn't just a group of 20 or 30 people. The video actually shows two women being assaulted, but the police report says that there were five women in all who were assaulted and sexually groped and, you know, assaulted by this mob. And there was a police report, a police complaint, that was filed on the 18 of May by a husband of one of the women in that video. RAZDAN: Well, what we know is that the incident happened on the 4 of May, which was when the violence between these two ethnic groups had started to spiral. MARTIN: Do we know anything more about what happened to the women in that video? And she's here with us now to tell us more. She's a columnist for Gulf News and joins us from New Delhi. Nidhi Razdan has been following this story. The assault took place amid fighting between two ethnic groups there that has been going on since May. It shows two women being paraded naked while being groped by a mob of men in India's northeastern state of Manipur. A video of a sexual assault has gone viral. Please, know that this next story, which runs about four minutes, contains very disturbing details about sexual violence. OK, I have an important heads up right now.
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