Wednesday, July 20 2005 18:02 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: In a grim reminder of how unsafe Delhi is for women, a 23-year-old housewife was abducted by four men in northwest Delhi today (July 20, 2005) and repeatedly gangraped in a moving car, just two months after a similar incident not far from this spot shook the nation.

The woman, a resident of Mayapuri slum cluster, had gone to an open field at about 0430 hrs (IST) this morning to answer nature's call when she was forced into the white Maruti car.

Two other women, who were also with her, tried to pull her free from the clutches of the men but were beaten up.

About two hours later, the woman was dumped off near Saraswati Vihar in north-west Delhi, almost 15 kilometres away from the place she was abducted, police sources said.

She had been repeatedly gangraped and was in such a state of shock that she could not even say her name to personnel of a Police Control Room (PCR) van, which found her. She finally wrote her name and address on a piece of paper, the sources said.

The woman was then taken to a hospital where medical examination confirmed rape.

Delhi Police, facing flak for its tardy investigations into the gangrape of a 22-year-old Delhi University student in May, was tight-lipped about the latest incident.

"We have registered a case and investigations are on," was all Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West district) R S Yadav was willing to comment.