A 20-year-old college student was allegedly raped by seven men over a span of one-and-a-half year on multiple occasions in Banaskantha district, said police. The perpetrators, also college students, used a private video of the young woman to allegedly blackmail her.
The matter came to light on Tuesday and an FIR was subsequently lodged.
Police said that one of the accused, who had befriended the woman over a social media platform months ago, had filmed her while she was changing clothes. The accused had threatened to make the video viral on the social media platforms, said the FIR.
Using the same clip, he forced the student to have physical relations with him and his friends at different places on different occasions between November 2023 and February 2025, stated the FIR, as reported by news agecny PTI.
