40-year-old woman gangraped

Phagwara, Oct 25 (UNI) A 40-year-old married woman today filed an FIR against her two neighbours alleging that they gangraped her in Nanak Nagari Chihherru.

The woman, mother of three children, alleged that on the night of October 18 she was returning from a religious place when two of her neighbours, identified as Ashok Kumar and Vijay Kumar, engaged her in a conversation in front of their house and later pushed her in, gagged her and raped her.

Later, father of one of the accused Vijay tried to persuade the woman's family, which belongs to a backward community, to reach a compromise. However, the victim today lodged the complaint in Sadar Police Phagwara today.

The police have registered a case against the two youth who were at large.

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