India, Aug. 5 -- Five people, including a cleric, have been booked for allegedly gang-raping a 26-year-old woman after holding her captive for over a month on the pretext of performing rituals to cure her son of "black magic" in Nuh, police said on Tuesday.

The woman alleged in her complaint that the accused also recorded obscene photographs and videos of her, circulated them on social media, and threatened to kill her son if she approached the police, investigators said.

Officials familiar with the investigation said five people, including two women, have been identified for their alleged roles in the crime. All of them are absconding.

According to the FIR, accessed by HT, the woman visited a cleric in Mathepur village in Palwal on Ma...