Yamunanagar, August 11

The police have booked six persons for allegedly raping a woman in a village here.In a complaint to the police, the victim stated that her husband was working with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Panchkula. On August 5, he went to Delhi for Independence Day duty.She alleged that Majid, Kasim, Najir, Kala and two more persons forcibly entered her house late in the night on August 5 and gang-raped her. They threatened her with dire consequences if she narrated the incident to anyone.She alleged that the accused came to her house the next day also and asked her to go with them. When she refused to go with them, one of them pointed a revolver at her and they took her on a motorcycle to an unknown place and gang-raped her in a hut there, she alleged. She said that one of the accused had left her near her house after committing the crime.The victim said that when she told her husband about the incident, he asked her to lodge an FIR against the accused. A case was registered against six persons under Sections 452, 376-D and 506 of IPC and the Arms Act at Bilaspur police station on Saturday. — TNS