Woman Gangraped by Four in Front of Husband in UP’s Amroha

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A 25 year old woman was allegedly gangraped in front of her husband by four armed men on Saturday, 7 September, in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha, according to a Times of India report.

The couple were returning home at night in an e-rickshaw when the assailants attacked them and dragged the woman into a nearby field.

The men also shot at the husband and stabbed him when he tried to resist, the survivor told the police.

An FIR has been registered in the case and the search for perpetrators is underway, reports TOI.

"Usman, Imamuddin, Rashid and Riazul from the same village stopped our e-rickshaw, robbed the driver and threatened him. He left us there and sped away because of fear," the survivor told the publication.

She added that she was gangraped at gunpoint, and the men fled only after she shouted for help, attracting the attention of passers-by and other villagers.

The local superintendent of police, Vipin Tada, told TOI that two have been detained in the case and are being questioned. He added that the woman has been sent for medical examination but no bullet injury was found on the husband's arm.

The case is reminiscent of the 2016 Bulandshahr rape case in which a mother and her daughter were waylaid by a group of men near Noida, dragged out into the fields and gangraped while the men of the family were tied-up and beaten up.

(With inputs from the Times of India.)