According to local authorities in the city of Chennai, Indian, a local - an eleven-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by 17 men rapists since mid-January this year.

The deputy commissioner of police for Chennai's Kilpauk district, S. Rajendran confirmed the case was reported to the police Sunday after the girl told her family and that the 17 rapists have been arrested pending investigation.





This case follows a series of other sexual assault cases that have rattled India in recent months.

In a separate case sometimes in May, a 16-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and burned to death in the northeastern state of Jharkhand, authorities said.





Only recently, a lawmaker from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was charged with forcefully penetrating a teenage girl whose father was allegedly beaten to death for complaining about it.