16-year-old student gang-raped in Lucknow

A 16-year-old Class 11 student was allegedly raped by five men here, a police officer said.

Vikash Pandey, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Krishnanagar, told PTI that the girl had left home around noon on Saturday to visit her relative and was travelling on a motorcycle with an acquaintance.

"The girl and her acquaintance stopped at a mango orchard near a petrol pump under Banthara police station limits, when five unidentified men approached them. They beat up her acquaintance, who fled the scene. The men then raped the girl," Pandey said.

The assailants warned the girl against reporting the incident and left the spot.

She informed a relative, who alerted the police.

Banthara SHO Rana Rajesh Kumar told PTI that several teams had been formed to identify and arrest the accused.