HYDERABAD: A 20-year-old student was gang-raped inside an abandoned hospital building in Nizamabad district late on Tuesday night, the police said, adding the five accused had been arrested. Nizamabad police said that a case was registered under IPC Sections 376 D (gang rape) and 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and under the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
On Tuesday night, five men offered the student a lift while she was returning home. She was made to sit on a bike after she was befriended by one of the accused. They took her around Nizamabad, saying they were going for a drive, and then took her to an abandoned hospital where three men raped her, the police said. "The offence took place in the watchman’s room.
Three persons committed the offence, while two others were accomplices. A case has been registered against five accused," Nizamabad town police said. Officials said that the victim was made to consume liquor.
On Wednesday morning the police registered a case and the victim was shifted to a hospital. Police said they are investigating the circumstances leading to the crime.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
