India, April 30 -- Nine men, all in their 20s, were detained on Wednesday for allegedly abducting and gang raping a 17-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district, police said.

The minor, who was attending a friend's wedding function in the village on Tuesday night, had stepped out of the venue to go to a nearby field when the nine accused, all natives of the same village, allegedly abducted her.

"Around 11.30 pm, she had gone to a nearby field to defecate when the nine accused abducted her and took her to a desolated place where they raped her repeatedly," station house officer (SHO) of Jhalawar's Aklera police station Bhupesh Singh said.

Her family members thought she was still at the function and her friends did not notice she wa...