A 24-year-old MBA student was kidnapped and allegedly raped by a group of youngsters, five of whom were arrested by the police on Tuesday on a complaint filed by the girl's friend.

The girl was returning home with her friend in their car after shopping at Great India Palace mall in Sector 39 of Noida when the incident took place at around 5 pm on Monday in Sector 121, police said.

Five youngsters identified as Husain, Srikant, Sanjay, Sudhir and Gautam were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with the case while police is on a hunt to nab five others who are believed to be involved in the crime.

All of them were picked up from Ramgarhi Choukandi village, where they reside, within 12 hours of committing the crime, Superintendent of Police (Noida City) Ashok Tripati said.

The accused were in the age group of 18 to 25 years and some were under-graduate students.

In an FIR lodged with Noida Police early Tuesday morning, the friend of the second-year MBA student, residing in South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar, claimed the motorcycle-borne youths waylaid them near a drainage.

"Amit Talwar, the friend, said that while they had travelled about 900 metres from the mall, some motorcyclists overtook them and waylaid them. They forcibly entered the car and one of them started driving," Tripati said, adding the youngsters were carrying cricket bats and wickets.

After driving for some time, the official said, the youngsters reached an isolated place where they allegedly raped the girl.

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