Kanpur, June 7 -- A 31-year-old woman from Jhansi alleged that she was gang-raped at gunpoint in front of her nine-year-old daughter, who was also molested, after being lured into a vehicle while travelling to the Kalinjar Fort in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, officials aware of the matter said on Saturday.

In a written complaint submitted to Banda superintendent of police (SP) Palash Bansal on Saturday, the woman, a resident of Jhansi's Sipri area, said she arrived in Banda on June4 to visit the fort.

While waiting for transport at Baboolal intersection, she met a man who identified himself as Bhagwandeen and offered to take her to the fort for Rs.500, according to the complaint, which added that Bhagwandeen allegedly stopped the veh...