Six men have been arrested over the rape of a female passenger on a coach in India, weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests.
The victim had boarded the service to her in-laws' home in the northern state of Punjab on Friday when she was abducted and driven to a district bordering the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, police officer Raj Jeet Singh said.
Five men joined the driver and conductor, who had taken her by motorbike to an unknown address, and took turns to rape the victim before dropping her off near her in-laws' village on Saturday morning, he said.
"Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman … after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11," he said, adding that a seventh suspect was being hunted.
"The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seven accused," he said.
"After raping the victim throughout the night, one of the accused dropped her near her in-laws' house the next morning where she narrated the whole incident to her two sisters-in-law."