SURAT: A class X girl student was allegedly gang-raped multiple times by five men at different locations during the past six months.The accused were booked in Udhna police station on Friday following the complaint by the survivor. The main accused initially became friends with with the girl on social networking platform Instagram and after copying her photo he morphed it to blackmail her.Police booked Bittu, Ajay, Sahil and their two other friends for allegedly gang-raping the 15-year-old girl. Along with rape, the accused were also booked for unnatural sex, kidnapping, Pocso Act and Information Technology Act.Police investigation revealed that the accused Bittu first developed friendship with the girl on Instagram. “The accused and the survivor did not know each other but they became friend first time on Instagram. Later the accused copied her photo and morphed it,” said a police officer at Udhna police station.The accused developed obscene morphed images of the survivor and sent her with a threat on mobile that he will forward it to her father. The accused also threatened the survivor to make the photo viral on social media if she does not come to meet him. The survivor went to meet the accused when she was raped.Later the accused introduced the minor to his other friends and they too raped her by taking her to different locations.

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