A 20-year-old computer teacher at a private institute was gangraped and physically assaulted near the railway tracks in Sultanpuri, West Delhi, on Monday evening.

The victim is in the intensive care unit of Sanjay Gandhi Hospital.

According to the police, the victim was walking back home around 7.15 pm Monday with a male colleague when they were attacked by five men. Both live in Sultanpuri, the police said.

A BCom student, the victim teaches computers at Raja institute in Puthkala.

The victim’s father, Satbir, said on Tuesday that the two were walking past a railway crossing on their way home. There was a jam at the crossing as a train had stopped there. They decided to cross the tracks a little further ahead.

They were attacked at this spot — “a few minutes from the jam,” Satbir said.

The tracks where the incident took place runs between a cluster of four schools on one side and slums on the other. The road isn’t much travelled and residents say it is home to gamblers, drug dealers, drunkards and other anti-social elements.

“The men waylaid my daughter and Satyaprakash and two of them beat him up badly,” said Satbir, who runs a small cellphone and watch shop in Nangloi.

According to the police, the assailants forcibly carried the victim to the nearby bushes and raped her by turn. She was then physically assaulted and left near the pits, surrounded by dense vegetation.

The assailants are still at large, the police said.

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