Outrage in India after woman allegedly raped twice by same men

Three of the five men accused of gang rape in India's Haryana state last week have been arrested and are scheduled to be in court Wednesday, police said. The case has made international headlines because the alleged victim claimed that two of her attackers previously gang raped her in 2013. It was not clear if those two alleged perpetrators were among the three arrested. Police say they are working to find the other two suspects, along with the car used to abduct the victim.

A student in India has allegedly been gang-raped by the same two men who raped her three years ago, police said.

Five people kidnapped the 21-year old victim Wednesday in Rohtak, in the northern state of Haryana, according to Rohtak deputy superintendent Pushpa Khatri.

The group then drugged the woman before gang-raping her and dumping her in a park, she added.

A passerby found the victim unconscious and took her to a nearby hospital.

Khatri told CNN that, according to the victim, two of the five accused are the same perpetrators who raped her in 2013.

 heavy security presence did not stop a group of protesters from getting inside a hospital where the victim of an alleged gang rape is being treated. Police say the 21-year-old victim was raped on July 13 by five men, two of whom had raped her three years prior. The victim's family is giving a slightly different version of events.

'Threats'

The woman, a second year college student from from a poor, low-caste Dalit family, was first assaulted three years ago in Bhiwani, also in Haryana.

She was raped on two separate occasions by two men over four days in October 2013, police said.

They were arrested and jailed, but the victim's family told police they were forced to move to Rohtak after continuing to receive threats from the accused and pressure to withdraw the case against them.

The two men were released in June of this year.

Woman raped every 22 minutes

It's the latest in a series of shocking rapes that have unleashed outrage in India and internationally.

The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 shone a light on the grim frequency of sexual assault incidents in the country and led to a toughening up of the laws and punishments surrounding rape, but attacks continue to be reported in the media on a daily basis.

On average, according to government statistics, a woman in India is raped every 22 minutes.

According to local media reports, members of the Dalit caste held small protests in Rohtak over the weekend to demand justice for the victim.