The woman, a resident of Balhotra village in Pathankot district, had come to meet her relatives in Shikar Machian village, they said.
A member of the Gujjar community, she was allegedly abducted by six people riding three motor-cycles after she disembarked from a bus last night, police said.
Later, she was allegedly criminally assaulted by two of them.
A case had been registered in this connection, SSP Batala Tulsi Ram said adding one of the accused had been arrested.
A hunt was on to apprehend the other five, he said.
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