Two men allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, recorded a video of the crime and shared it on social media websites, the police said today.
The incident took place on Sunday in a village under Bhopa Police Station, police official Subhash Babu said, adding a case was registered against the accused, Shubham and Ashish, who are on the run.
According to a complaint filed by the girl's mother, the accused lured the girl into a garden with guava trees on the pretext of offering her the fruit and instead gang-raped her.
The incident came to light after the video of the crime was circulated on social media, the police said.
In a separate incident, a man was booked for allegedly trying to rape a woman in a village under Kotwali Police Station area in Muzaffarnagar.
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