19-year-old allegedly gang-raped by 23 people over six days, six arrested

A 19-year-old woman was gang-raped by 23 people over six days, leading to arrests and legal action.

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by 23 people over six days, with the accused drugging her and taking her to several hotels as they passed her on for abuse, police said here on Monday (April 7, 2025). Six of the accused have been arrested.

Additional Commissioner of Police, Cantonment, Vidush Saxena said the woman had gone out with some youths on March 29. Her family filed a missing report on April 4 when she did not return home.

When the police rescued her, she did not mention about the rape, he said.

However, the survivor’s family on April 6 lodged a complaint alleging that she had been gang raped.

“The woman told the police that between March 29 and April 4, the accused allegedly took her to many hotels and hookah bars and gang-raped her,” the officer said.

The police said 11 unnamed persons have also been booked. Out of 12 named accused, six were arrested on Sunday (April 6, 2025), and efforts are being made to nab the rest of the accused.

The woman’s mother said in her complaint that her daughter had gone to her friend’s house on March 29. “On the way back home, she met a boy named Raj Vishwakarma, who took her to his cafe in Lanka, where Raj and his other friend did ‘bad acts’ with her.