Badamalhara (Madhya Pradesh): Five persons dragged a 42-year-old woman out of a taxi near the Badi Teek area under Maharajganj police station and gang-raped her on Saturday, the police said on Monday.
Before violating her, they also beat up the woman who was going to Badamalhara in a taxi.
The police said four rapists had been arrested and one was on the run.
Just as the taxi neared Teek, a youth came and beat up the woman whom he took to a nearby forest where he together with other youths made her drink liquor.
When she was drunk, they gang-raped her and also tore her clothes. The woman also sustained injuries, the police said.
The police registered a case against the criminals. Town inspector of Badamalhara, Kamal Singh Thakur, said the medical report indicated that the woman had been gang-raped.
The four arrested criminals are being presented to the court, he said.