Three BSP men held for rape in Uttar Pradesh

Lokpal, Pyare Lal and Vinay Gautam were arrested from the Baradari area, some 200 km from Lucknow.

While Lokpal is the chairman of the BSP's Nawabganj assembly unit, Lal was its former chairman and Gautam is a functionary of the party at the district level, police said.

"The three were at large for the last several days. The 30-year-old woman from Ragunandanpur in Bareilly had Sep 16 registered a complaint against the three for raping her," police Inspector M.M. Khan told reporters.

According to police, the medical reports of the woman had confirmed rape.