A 19-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped by her friend and three of his associates here, police said on Saturday. Three of the accused have been arrested.
The teenager was invited by her friend Akash to his flat in east Delhi's Farsh Bazaar area on Wednesday on the pretext of celebrating a party.
Police said Akash and his three other friends identified as Jatin, Rohit and Raman were already present. All the accused gang raped the victim and dropped her near her house in Vivek Vihar in east Delhi early Thursday morning.
The victim informed her family who then approached police, and a case of rape was registered against the four accused, all who are in their early twenties.
A police officer said that Jatin, Akash and Rohit were arrested on Saturday morning from their different hideouts in the city. Police are on the lookout for Raman.
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