35-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped by six men including five minors in Badaun district.

News Desk: In yet another shocking incident reported from Uttar Pradesh, a 35-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped by six men including five minors in Badaun district.

What was more shocking was that the accused also recorded the video of the crime and made it viral. Police have now arrested the six accused in connection with the crime, police said on Friday.

The accused were arrested on Thursday night after the victim approached police as the video went viral, according to a report in Indian Express.

Five of the accused are minors aged between 15 and 17 years old. All five have been sent to juvenile home. The sixth accused, who is an adult, and has been sent to jail.

“The woman and the five accused minors are from the same neighbourhood and know each other. In October, they had taken her to a field where they took turns to rape her while recording the whole incident on a mobile phone. They threatened to release the video on social media if she revealed the incident to anyone. This forced her to remain quiet. On Wednesday, one of the six accused, who is 19 years old, shared the video on social media and the woman got to know about it. She then lodged a complaint naming the five accused. We filed an FIR and held all six of them on Thursday night,” the report quoted Badaun Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Siddhartha Verma as saying.

The police have booked five minor accused under sections 376 D (gangrape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and other sections of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) (SC/ST Act).

The adult accused has been charged under the Information Technology Act.

The ASP further said police are looking into whether a medical examination of the woman should be done or not as the incident is old.