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GURUGRAM: Three people have been arrested and two others booked for allegedly raping a 31-year-old Kenyan woman in Ghata village on Thursday morning.

According to police, the woman, who had gone to a party on MG Road and was looking for a cab at 12.40am near Bristol Hotel . Three men approached her in a white Scorpio and asked her if she needed help. The woman told them she was looking for a cab to go to Delhi’s Chhatarpur. The trio offered her a lift and claimed they were heading towards Delhi and could drop her.

“They looked decent, so I accepted their offer. As I sat inside the car, they started misbehaving with me. They took the car towards Golf Course Road. After driving for some distance, they stopped outside a house. The three dragged me inside, where two other men were already present. There all five men raped me. After a while, they called five more people who also came and raped me,” the woman told cops.

The woman claimed she told the men she wanted to go to the washroom and was escorted outside the house by one of them. She managed to escape from their clutches as the man who escorted her was drunk. After running for a while, she spotted a PCR van patrolling in the area. She approached the cops and told them she had been raped. The cops made her sit in the van and went to the location where the crime had taken place. As the woman didn’t know the area well, the cops took some time to find the house. By this time, the accused had fled.

The woman was brought to the Sector 56 police station, where her complaint was registered. She was sent to Civil Hospital for a check-up which confirmed rape. An FIR was registered against the men under Section 376D (gang rape) of the IPC, and a team was set up to nab them. The woman recorded her statement in court on Thursday under Section 164 of CrPC.

Three of the accused — Sunder (31), Praveen (24) and Mohit (21) — were arrested from Ghata village. They allegedly confessed to the crime and claimed there were two others with them. The SUV used by the accused was also seized. Cops said the other two accused have also been identified, and raids are being conducted to nab them at the earliest. “All of the accused are involved with either supplying water tankers or construction material. They raped the woman in a one-room office set-up in Ghata village. We have identified the two absconding accused and they will be arrested soon,” said inspector Arvind Kumar, SHO, Sector 56 police station.

