The incident took place on Thursday night when the victim's cousin took her to a secluded place where he and his friend gang-raped her, a senior officer said.
Eight persons, including six autorickshaw drivers and two employees of the Railways, were arrested in connection with the crime.
The sixth accused was also arrested from Tamil Nadu on Monday night after police tracked him down. He had disappeared after the incident came to light.
Gang rape accused have told Police that they were encouraged by the fact that no complaint was ever lodged against them by the victims.
Victim was gang-raped near Chamundi foothills on the outskirts of Mysuru on August 24. The culprits assaulted her male friend who was with her.
According to sources, the police have zeroed in on four students of a reputed engineering college in Mysuru. The police have obtained their tower locations from the crime spot. When the police tried to reach the suspects, they were not found.
Karnatak Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday said that the state government will form a special team to probe the gang-rape incident in Mysuru.
A medical student studying in a private college was allegedly gang-raped by unidentified people on the outskirts of the city near Lalitadripura, police said on Wednesday.
The accused attacked the boy who was with the girl with a small boulder and sexually assaulted the girl. The victim is said to have come to Mysuru for studies from Uttar Pradesh. She studies in a private college.
The incident occurred near Gadhuproda village under Lemru police station area on January 29, but came to light on Tuesday.
After dragging her into the place of worship, they beat her up, raped her and threatened her to not reveal about the incident. The two also took the money she had on hand, they said.
The 35-year-old woman, who went to the Jalalabad police station to file her complaint, said the sub-inspector took her to an adjoining room on the pretext of filing her complaint and sexually assaulted her.
Eight years ago, on December 16, 2012, the brutal act against 'Nirbhaya' (2012 gang rape and murder) shook the nation.
The minor girl had befriended one Sahil through Facebook. At the time of the incident, the girl had gone to meet Sahil, with his two friends, who later gangraped the girl along with one other friend in a car.
The girl had initially gone missing from the Ghatampur area on the night of Diwali. Kanpur's Deputy Inspector of General of Police Preetinder Singh had said forensic experts and sniffer dogs were pressed into service to gather scientific evidence to confirm if the girl was killed in an act of black magic.
Three men, including the security guard of a hospital, have been arrested for allegedly raping a woman at a hospital's parking lot in Delhi's Rohini district.
Fifteen men have been accused of raping teenage sisters in Pakistan's Faisalabad for six days.
A 17-year-old girl, who ran away after a fight with her parents, was taken to a poultry farm in Odisha's Cuttack by a man who offered to drop her home in his motorcycle and allegedly gang-raped over 22 days, police said on Wednesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) team has reached Hathras and has sought some important documents from the district administration which initially probed the matter. Reportedly, the team will be examining the spot of the incident today.
A woman was allegedly gang-raped and thrown into a river along with her five-year-old child in Ojha Baraon village in Bihar's Buxar district on Sunday. The child could not be saved.
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