RAIPUR: Police were in a fix on Monday after a 19-year-old girl first claimed that she was gang-raped by five youth, later denied it and frequently changed her statements about the alleged sexual assault. However, the police arrested all the accused on the basis of her statement.

Civil Lines police, while patrolling late on Sunday night, found this girl in Shankar Nagar locality in a suspicious state. During questioning, she claimed that she was gang-raped by five youths, who took her to an isolated place.

Based on the statement of the girl, who works in few shops in the area, police promptly lodged an FIR and all the accused were rounded up.

A piquant situation arose when the girl retracted from her statement on Monday while taking to the media, claiming that all the five youth, named in her statement, were her friends and they didn't rape her. However, the police searched the crime scene, as earlier described by the girl, and found contraceptives.

Police sources claimed that the girl might have been physically involved with her boyfriend who later called his friends, who later gang-raped her. Girl was under the influence of alcohol when police brought her to police station and the next day she must have changed her statement after sensing the seriousness of the issue.

The decision on her altered statement would probably be put forward before a sub-divisional magistrate as per the provisions of law.

Civil Lines town inspector Manisha Thakur said the five accused are Rahul Sahu, 19, Keshav Sahu, 21, Sonu Prajapati, 19 and Rohit Sahu, 19, all residents of Shakti Nagar. A case under Section 376 (2G) of the IPC was registered against them.