VADODARA: Vadodara rural police have arrested six persons of a seven-member gang that allegedly raped an 18-year-old girl in Shinor taluka last week.

The arrest revealed details of a string of sexual assaults the gang had carried out in Shinor and other villages nearby. All the accused are casual labourers and they have confessed to have raping at least eight women in Shinor in the past six months.

Six of the seven were nabbed by the local crime branch (LCB) from two villages of Shinor.

On January 17 night, they kidnapped the girl who was asleep in her house in Bithali village and dragged her to an open field about 1.5 km away. They took turns to rape her.

The accused were identified as Mahesh Vasava, Nitesh Vasava, Mahesh Vasava and Ranjit Vasava, all residents of Mota Fofaliya village in Shinor, and Rajesh Vasava and Ghanshyam Vasava of Malpur village. The seventh accused, Chiman Tadvi, is yet to be arrested as he is away at Junagadh.