Sickening! You can buy gang-rape videos for as little as Rs 20

In Uttar Pradesh, there's a sickening over-the-counter trade being conducted in gang rape videos where customers pay Rs 20-200 for footage of real sex attacks on women and children

Believe it or not, there is a dark trade booming in the bylanes of Uttar Pradesh that will leave you sick to the core.

Graphic mobile phone clips of gang rapes, which last 30 seconds to five minutes, are being sold in shops in Uttar Pradesh and cost as little as Rs 20 to 200 each.

According to a report in Al Jazeera, the faces of the women being sexual assaulted are visible in these films. Their voices are clear. The attacks on them are brutal.

The videos which cost from Rs 20 to Rs 200 are transmitted to a customer's mobile phone in a matter of seconds.

Al Jazeera reported that most shopkeepers don't generally sell the videos only to locals, and generally deny any knowledge of them. 

The films are are euphemistically referred to as 'local films', which is like a watchword in the trade -- akin to a secret handshake -- that let the sellers know that a customer seeks rape videos -- as opposed to other pornography, which the kiosks also sell, the website reported.

Another term for the videos are 'WhatsApp sex video', that's because once a rape video reaches a dealer, it spreads like wildfire, through applications such as WhatsApp, to other parts of the country. 

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