Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh:
A woman was allegedly gang-raped by four officers at a police station in Uttar Pradesh, the latest in a string of shocking sex attacks in India's largest state.
The woman said she had gone to the station overnight on Monday in the state's Hamirpur district to seek her husband's release when she was attacked.
The woman filed a complaint with a senior officer on Wednesday over the attack, which allegedly occurred when she refused to pay a bribe to secure the release of her husband.
One police officer has been arrested; three others listed in the complaint are reportedly missing.
The case is the latest in a string of horrific rapes and murders in Uttar Pradesh whose chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, is under growing political pressure over his handling of law and order.
Late last month, two girls, aged 12 and 14, were gang-raped and lynched in their village in Badaun. They were attacked after going into a field to relieve themselves at night because they did not have a toilet at home.
For hours , their families refused to cut the bodies down from the tree where they were found hanging, saying police had failed to take action against the attackers because the girls were from a low caste.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged all politicians to work together to protect women, in his first comments on the issue since the hanging of the girls sparked public outrage.
On Wednesday, a 45-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh, with her family saying she had been raped and murdered.
A police officer said they were questioning five men over the incident, which occurred several kilometres from her home in Bahraich district.
"They (her husband and son) have alleged that the woman, before being strung up from the tree, was raped and murdered by these men," district superintendent Happy Guptan told AFP.