Kushtia, Aug. 3 -- After finishing her shift at a small eatery in Baro Mile, a hardworking woman began her usual ride home with her husband, unaware that the night in kushtia would take a tragic turn.

What followed in a nearby litchi orchard of Bheramara upazila will scar the couple forever.

A group of five men intercepted the three-wheeler. The 26-year-old woman and her husband were no match for the sudden violence.

The men dragged them into the orchard, tied the husband to a tree and began to beat him. Then, the woman was taken deeper into the trees and raped.

"I could hear her screaming," the husband later told police, choking on his words. "I couldn't do anything. They had tied me up like an animal."

The alleged perpetrators, all...