<p class="title">A woman was allegedly gang-raped before her husband in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, about 325 kilometre from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the incident occurred last week, it came to light on Sunday, when the couple approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police sources here on Monday, the victim was on her way home with her husband on a motorbike after attending a social function, when four youths intercepted them near a forested area in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youths forced the couple to accompany them into the forest, where they tied the husband to a tree and gang-raped the woman. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The youths also filmed the entire incident and threatened to make it public if they approached the police, sources said. Fearing a social backlash, the couple chose not to lodge any complaint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They were, however, shocked to find the youths had uploaded the video on social networking sites after which they filed a complaint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said that they had identified three of the alleged culprits and were trying to identify the fourth one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There has been a sudden surge in the incidents of rapes in the state in the past few days triggering widespread backlash from rights activists and Opposition parties.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely a few days ago, a ten-year-old girl, who hailed from a Scheduled Caste community, was allegedly raped and then killed in Hamirpur district, about 200 kilometre from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident comes close on the heels of the brutal murder of a three-year-old girl after her father failed to repay Rs. 10,000 that he had taken as loan from a youth.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth allegedly murdered the toddler after the father expressed his inability to repay the loan.</p>
<p class="title">A woman was allegedly gang-raped before her husband in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, about 325 kilometre from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the incident occurred last week, it came to light on Sunday, when the couple approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police sources here on Monday, the victim was on her way home with her husband on a motorbike after attending a social function, when four youths intercepted them near a forested area in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youths forced the couple to accompany them into the forest, where they tied the husband to a tree and gang-raped the woman. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The youths also filmed the entire incident and threatened to make it public if they approached the police, sources said. Fearing a social backlash, the couple chose not to lodge any complaint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They were, however, shocked to find the youths had uploaded the video on social networking sites after which they filed a complaint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said that they had identified three of the alleged culprits and were trying to identify the fourth one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There has been a sudden surge in the incidents of rapes in the state in the past few days triggering widespread backlash from rights activists and Opposition parties.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely a few days ago, a ten-year-old girl, who hailed from a Scheduled Caste community, was allegedly raped and then killed in Hamirpur district, about 200 kilometre from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident comes close on the heels of the brutal murder of a three-year-old girl after her father failed to repay Rs. 10,000 that he had taken as loan from a youth.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth allegedly murdered the toddler after the father expressed his inability to repay the loan.</p>