A Delhi University student alleges she is drugged and gang-raped in Lucknow after being lured off her train journey. According to multiple reports, the victim, a student of Daulat Ram College, filed a first information report using the “zero FIR” mechanism at Anand Vihar Railway Station police in New Delhi. The case is transferred to Lucknow police under the zero-FIR provision on May 23. Lucknow police have registered a case covering gang rape and related offences, including wrongful confinement and hurt caused by poison, along with criminal intimidation. The FIR names two accused and also includes an unidentified person, according to one source. The allegations describe the victim being persuaded to break her trip from Jaunpur to Delhi and being taken to a rented room, where the assaults allegedly occur over multiple days; one report says she later is abandoned at a Lucknow station with a general bogie ticket. Police say several teams have been formed to investigate the case and pursue leads.
DU student alleges being drugged and gang-raped after luring in Lucknow
A Delhi University student alleges she is drugged and gang-raped in Lucknow after being lured off her train journey. According to multiple reports, the victim, a student of Daulat Ram College, filed a...
- A Delhi University student alleges she was drugged and gang-raped in Lucknow.
- The victim initially files an FIR at Anand Vihar Railway Station police in New Delhi, and the case is transferred to Lucknow under “zero FIR.”
- Lucknow police register a case including gang rape, wrongful confinement, hurt by poison, and criminal intimidation.
- The FIR names two accused and includes an unidentified person.
- Police have formed multiple teams to investigate the allegations.
The victim, a student of Daulat Ram College studying political science, filed an initial FIR at Anand Vihar Railway Station police in New Delhi. Under the zero FIR provision, the case was transferred to Lucknow police on May 23. Police registered a case under charges of gang rape, wrongful confinement, hurt by poison, and criminal intimidation against two named accused and one unidentified person. Four teams have been formed to pursue the investigation, police said.
3 months agoA 19-year-old student alleges she was drugged and gang-raped over four days in Lucknow by three youths, two of whom she knew from her village. Persuaded to break her journey from Jaunpur to Delhi, she was taken to a rented room where the assaults allegedly occurred. Police have formed multiple teams to investigate the case.
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