LUCKNOW, June 3 -- Two days after two men gang raped a mentally challenged minor in the Jankipuram area, the Lucknow Police arrested the duo from the same area.

"The arrests were made on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after the FIR was lodged," read a Lucknow police statement.

The police identified the arrested men as Dinesh alias Mahra, 38, and Jagannath alias Jumman, 45, both labourers originally from Sitapur district.

The victim's mother complained on Tuesday that her daughter, a minor with mental health challenges, did not return after leaving home for a walk around 8:00 PM on June 1. The girl was later found emerging from a newly constructed empty house the next morning around 5:00 AM. The mother alleged that Dinesh and an ...