A high school girl student in Mankapur Kotwali area ofGonda district in Uttar Pradesh was gang-raped and then stabbed by four men.
The girl was returning home from school on Tuesday evening when she was waylaidby four accused and dragged to a sugarcane field.
The four men, one of whom belongs to her village, raped her by turns and thenstabbed her on the hand, warning her not to report the incident.
The girl returned to her home and informed her parents after which she lodged acomplaint with the police.
The police spokesman at Mankapur police station said that a case had beenregistered against the four accused for rape and under provisions of the POCSOAct.
The girl has been sent for medical examination.
The police said that there was a dispute between the families of the accusedand the victim.
No arrests have been made yet.