India, Aug. 22 -- The Ghaziabad police on late Thursday evening arrested two people in the alleged gang rape of the 23-year-old speech and hearing-impaired woman in Loni on August 18 night.

Police identified the two suspects as Rohit Kumar, 31, and Vir Singh, alias Bhola, 53. Both are Nithora village residents and married. Both were arrested near Nithora after they sustained a bullet injury to their legs during police's retaliatory fire.

"The two men accepted their involvement in the gang rape. They were having drinks at a tubewell, near Nithora village. Seeing the woman walking alone on the isolated stretch, they asked her where she was going. When she did not reply, they pulled her to the tubewell area and gang-raped her. Then, they l...