New Delhi, Sep 16: Two girls, 18 and 17, were gang-raped allegedly in front of their friends in Delhi last night, an incident that once again calls into question women's safety in the capital four years after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student.
The girls were out on a walk with two boys around 8.30 pm, in an isolated patch near a metro station, when they were attacked allegedly by five people including two teenagers.
The men allegedly saw one of the girls and her friend together and started manhandling the group.
After thrashing the boys, the attackers took turns to rape the girls, said a senior police officer.
Later they threatened the girls and warned them against going to the police.
A medical examination has confirmed rape.
Four men have been detained, of which two are underage. The police have reportedly tracked down the fifth attacker.
Security in Delhi and other cities was widely debated after a physiotherapy student on her way home from a movie with her friend was brutally gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus and then dumped on the roadside. The 23-year-old died 13 days later as protests raged across the nation. What came to be known as the "Nirbhaya gang-rape" led to sweeping changes in national laws on crime against women.
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