MEERUT: A 20-year-old woman filed a police complaint against eight youth on Tuesday for raping her a year ago and later, uploading her video on a social networking site.

The woman said she had kept quiet all this time fearing that the accused would upload the video on the internet and use it to malign her reputation.

She said she approached police when she saw that the video was uploaded on Facebook. Four of the eight accused were arrested on Tuesday, while a manhunt has been launched to nab the rest, SSP HN Singh said.

“As per the woman’s complaint, she had gone for lunch with a friend in August last year. Near Basadha village, four youth had joined them. They had taken her to a secluded place where three more youth were present. It was there that she was gang-raped and her video was made,” Singh said. The accused had threatened the woman with dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident.

At that time, the rape survivor had not complained to police fearing that the video might be used against her. “However, the woman approached us when she saw that the clip had been put up on Facebook,” he said.

Police said a case has been registered under the IPC and IT Act against the eight accused — Rashid, Wasik, Abdul Rehman, Monu, Rahul, Salau, Abul and Shokan.

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