India, Nov. 29 -- Three youths have been arrested for allegedly gangraping a 36-year-old widow and her 18-year-old daughter in a village 40km from the Jalandhar district headquarters, police said on Saturday.

Senior superintendent of police (Jalandhar rural) Harvinder Singh Virk said the victims were migrants from Bihar and the crime was committed on the intervening night of November 23 and 24. The victims were putting up in a rented accommodation in the farmhouse owned by an NRI family, he said.

"The accused barged into the secluded house in a field and assaulted them with sharp-edged weapons. They took the widow and her daughter to a separate room after locking the daughter's husband and their five-month-old child in another room," SS...