Gurdaspur:
Six out of seven men, accused of gang-raping a 29-year-old woman in Gurdaspur in Punjab on Friday night, have been arrested. All six were sent to three-day police custody today.
The woman was on her way to her village in Ghukla - which falls under Kahnuwan police station - in a bus when the driver and conductor kidnapped her and took her to an undisclosed location where they and their five accomplices gang-raped her, Raj Jeet Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gurdaspur, told reporters.
Five of the accused men were arrested last night. Two were arrested today.
The victim, in her complaint, said that she was coming back from her parent's village in Jagatpur in Pathankot in a bus but the driver, Daler Singh, did not stop the vehicle at the bus stand in Ghukla.
Her request to the conductor, Ravi, to ask the driver to stop the bus went unnoticed.
They took her to a place near Gurdaspur, where five of the duo's friends joined them and gang-raped the woman in a house, the police official said.
The driver dumped the victim at a place near her village this morning, he said. The woman first went to her house and then came to the police station to file her complaint, he added.
A case of rape under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the seven accused, Mr Singh said.
Police said the First Information Report (FIR) was registered on Sunday evening.
The woman would be sent for medical examination, the police said, adding the accused had confessed to their crime during preliminary interrogation.
(With inputs from PTI)