LUCKNOW, May 25 -- A 19-year-old Delhi University first-year student from Jaunpur alleged that she was drugged and gang-raped repeatedly over four days in a rented room near a private hospital in Lucknow's Sushant Golf city police station area. She told police that one of her acquaintances convinced her to get off the train at Charbagh railway station, promising to drop her there after they spent time together in Lucknow, while she was travelling from Jaunpur to Delhi on May 15.

The victim, a student of Daulat Ram College studying political science, filed an initial FIR at Anand Vihar Railway Station police in New Delhi. Under the zero FIR provision, the case was transferred to Lucknow police on May 23. Police registered a case under cha...