Silchar, June 4 -- Five men were arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl from Assam's Biswanath district over several months before she was rescued by the police last week, officials said on Wednesday. Additional superintendent of police (ASP), Dipti Mali told HT that the matter came to light on May 26 after a group of locals intercepted a suspicious vehicle and rescued the victim from an area under the jurisdiction of the Biswanath Chariali police station. "Locals reported that the girl and the occupants of the car were found in a compromising state. The girl later revealed that she was subjected to forceful sexual intercourse by multiple men inside that moving vehicle," Mali said. The survivor was given immediate shelter, however the prime accused managed to flee and was arrested later the same day, while four more were arrested between May 28 and 30, police said. "Following the first arrest, our manhunt continued. Though the victim was in deep distress and unable to name everyone, she was able to identify their houses because she had been taken there in the past. Based on this information, we arrested four more between May 28 and 30," an official said. Following her rescue, police registered a case under sections 140(3) (abduction) and 70(2) (gang-rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, along with section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act....