Two Saudi women of the household held a knife to their necks and even lunged at the policemen.
"We were treated like animals," says one of the two women rescued from the apartment of a Saudi Arabian diplomat on Monday night. For four months, they had suffered gang-rapes, unspeakable torture and enslavement.
On Monday evening, they were enduring another beating when some 40 policemen came to the flat, following up on a complaint by a woman hired just days ago. That woman had run away when she saw the wretched state of these two women. She turned out to be their savior; she went to a non-profit, which alerted the police.
Two Saudi women of the household held a knife to their necks and even lunged at the policemen. "But we somehow managed to come out of the house," the woman said.
The women say they were hired in Jeddah where they were put up in a hotel for a month. It was in Gurgaon that the horror started.
"They are a family of 6...they have a small boy and a girl. The mother and older daughter would beat us. They used to be sent outside and then the men would rape us. We would scream and cry, then they used knives," said the older of the two women, who is 50.
"They raped us, kept us locked up, did not give us anything to eat," she told NDTV. She had divorced recently.
The other woman, 30, has two little children in Nepal's Baglung, and a husband who has cancer. She said she was stripped, raped and sodomised by "a lot of men who would keep coming to the flat, whose language we never understood."
No one has been named in the First Information Report (FIR), but sources say the diplomat is in focus because of the women's statement, and the police are waiting for a signal from the foreign ministry before taking the next step. The women will be flown back to Nepal tomorrow.