The police have registered a case against five men for allegedly drugging and raping a 21-year-old woman at Kalyan in Thane district, a police officer said on Thursday. Two women friends of the victim have also been named in the FIR filed on May 6 at the Kalyan Taluka police station in connection with the incident that took place on March 25, they said.

“The victim resides with her grandmother at Titwala in Thane district and works at a construction company in Kalyan. After an argument with her grandmother on March 19, the woman went to stay with her woman friend at another locality in Titwala. Another woman friend, too, lived in the vicinity,” a police officer said, quoting the complaint.