A Dalit teacher was gang-raped by three people in the state’s Bareilly district, about 250 km from here, on National Highway 24 that connects Lucknow to Delhi in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to sources in the police, the culprits dragged the victim, who was on her way to school where she taught, into their car and took her to a secluded place and gang-raped
her.
The culprits dumped the victim in a sugar cane field a few kilometres away from the spot and fled.
The victim, who managed to inform her family, later lodged an FIR with the police. She said that the culprits had also shot a video of the incident and threatened to make it public if she approached the police to file a complaint.