Outrage as woman is raped on a busy street as passers-by record video, refuse to help [PHOTOS]

There's an outrage in India as a woman was raped on a busy public street in broad daylight on Sunday as several bystanders filmed the attack and no one stepped in to help.


The woman, reportedly in her late 20s, had been resting under a tree by a footpath in the city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, on the Bay of Bengal.

She was then attacked and raped by a 23-year-old cleaner, in full view of passersby at around 2.30pm.

The video showed a man walking past the scene without saying a word.

The woman had reportedly left her family home on the outskirts of the city two days earlier after a fight with her husband.

The alleged rapist, Ganji Siva attacked her with no provocation and brutally raped her by the side of the road.

“Apparently, she was very weak as she had not eaten for several hours and was sleeping on the footpath under the shadow of a tree., when Siva, in an inebriated condition assaulted her sexually,' Visakhapatnam IV town police sub-inspector K Suresh told Hindustan Times

“Passers-by did not bother to stop him even as the woman was too weak to even scream.'

Several people started filming the attack, and one of the videos, filmed by a rickshaw driver from across the street, was brought to police.

The video showed several people walking past in a casual manner, while the assault goes on in the background.

By the time police arrived, the assailant had already left the scene, but thanks to the video and eyewitness accounts, Siva was soon identified and arrested.

Credit: Hindustan Times, Daily Mail.