India, Aug. 12 -- The police arrested five teenagers and a 27-year-old man on Sunday for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in their area in Kalachowki. Four of the teens were 17 years old, and one was 16.

The police said the teenagers are college students and knew the victim to be residing in the same area as them. Some of them took the girl to the 27-year-old accused's house and allegedly sexually assaulted her in October 2024. "They even recorded the sexual assault and used the video to blackmail the minor girl," said a police officer. They allegedly threatened her that they would make the video viral online and repeatedly demanded she send them obscene pictures of herself and raped her on multiple occasions till January 2025, he add...