A 22-year-old girl was on Sunday night gang-raped in a village in Rae Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, about 60 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.
Four of the culprits were tracked down and arrested on Monday while the hunt is on for the fifth man who had allegedly enticed an innocent Rekha Pandey to a flat where she was raped.
The incident acquires greater significance because the crime was committed in the well-guarded residential colony of National Thermal Power Corporation that runs a huge power generation plant in Unchahar town.
According to a police spokesman, "Rekha was being pursued by her neighbour Ashish Misra, who was trying to woo her on the promise of getting her a job in NTPC."
"Eventually Rekha fell into his trap and agreed to join him to NTPC, some distance away from the village; but instead
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