Rape video goes viral on WhatsApp. Help trace the rapists

HYDERABAD: It was by pure fluke that she chanced upon two sleazy videos that were being circulated on the messaging service WhatsApp showing five men taking turns to gang-rape a woman.

What she did next may well help the police arrest and punish the rapists.

The video, believed to be at least six months old, was edited to protect the rape victim's identity and highlight the faces of the rapists.

The edited video was posted by Sunitha Krishnan, an activist, on YouTube and Facebook, urging people to help identify the assaulters.

The videos were posted on social media to shame the rapists and get them arrested.

Sunitha Krishnan, a women rights activist who runs an NGO in Hyderabad, told CNN-IBN: 'Yesterday I started a campaign against these rapists requesting all the people to trace them. Soon after that my car was attacked.'

The attack took place as soon as she put up these videos on social media. She also plans to give the video to the Home Secretary at the Centre.

Sunitha Krishnan's plea to get the rapists get arrested has gone viral on the Internet.

The videos show a group of men assaulting women in turns as they begged and pleaded the men to let them go.

On her Facebook page, Sunitha Krishnan posted: 'If you know of anybody who has received any such videos, inform me at sunitha_2002@yahoo.com.'

Sunitha Krishnan is a rape survivor and campaigns to protect women from sex trafficking.