02 September,2018 07:12 PM IST | Muzaffarnagar | PTI
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A 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by two men, including the president of BKU youth wing of Shamli, in a hotel in Haridwar, police said Sunday.
According to a complaint lodged by the victim, she was brought to the hotel on the pretext of being provided treatment for her father, Circle Officer Ashok Kumar said.
She alleged that she was brought in a car to the place and was raped by district Bharatiya Kisan Union youth wing chief Vinod Nirwal and his friend Zahid Hasa, the CO said.
The woman set for medical examination. The accused are absconding, he said.
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In a similar circumstance, last week, a woman in her twenties was allegedly abducted and gang-raped in Assam's Nagaon district, following which she was dumped on a national highway, police said today. In her complaint, the woman said she was riding pillion on a motorcycle that was driven by her male friend last evening. He had picked her up from a roadside eatery in Lanka area, where she works, and they were travelling to Golaghat district, Nagaon Superintendent of Police (SP) Sankarbrat Roy told reporters. Nagaon is around 120 km from Guwahati. She alleged that they were waylaid and forcibly taken away by four men in their vehicle.
The woman was then driven away and her four abductors raped her at Amoni near Kalong river. They abandoned her near a petrol pump on NH 37 after she passed out, Roy said. An oil-tanker driver spotted her and informed the police, who rushed to the spot and admitted her to the Nagaon civil hospital. She is undergoing treatment for trauma and severe injuries in her private parts. Her medical examination has also been conducted, the SP said. The officer said the rape did not take place inside the vehicle, but outside a thinly-populated area and there might have been five-six culprits.
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