A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by four men and brutally beaten up in Gurugram in the early hours of Sunday, PTI quoted police as saying.

The alleged crime took place in Gurugram’s DLF Phase 2, Assistant Commissioner of Police, DLF, Karan Goyal told PTI. 

All four accused, aged between 20 and 25 have been arrested. Three of them were delivery boys. 

The ACP said one of the four accused met the woman on Saturday night near Sikanderpur metro station in Gurugram and took her to a realtor’s office, where the crime took place. The other three accused were present there. One of the accused worked at the realtor’s office and had the keys to the complex, he said.

Goyal said the accused beat up the woman when she resisted their attempts. Her head was smashed against a wall.

The woman suffered a deep cut on her head and was hospitalised in Gurugram, he said. 

The accused fled the spot after committing the crime.

After hearing the woman’s cries for help, a security guard in the complex alerted the police who reached the spot and took her to the hospital, the police said.

A case has been registered against the accused, who were nabbed within hours of the crime, under relevant provisions of the law, another police official told PTI.

The alleged crime took place amid nationwide over crimes against women. A 19-year old woman was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras on September 14. She succumbed to her wounds on September 29. 

Every 16 minutes, a woman is raped in India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) ‘Crime in India’ 2019 report released last month.