India, March 5 -- MEERUT A 17-year-old Class 12 girl was allegedly abducted from a local fair and gang-raped by four men in a deserted jungle area in Bulandshahr district on Wednesday evening. The incident unfolded when the teenager, a resident of Sikheda village, was visiting a fair in Pachauta village, located about 8km from her home. She was accompanied by her aunt and sister-in-law, but was suddenly separated from them in the crowd. When her kin could not locate her, they launched a search and alerted the police.

According to the formal complaint filed by the victim's father on Thursday morning, two youths forcibly pulled the girl into a car near the fairgrounds. They reportedly drove her around before taking her to an isolated jungl...