A minor Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped near her house by three persons from the same village as her in Shahjahanpur district, police said on Tuesday.

Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sanjeev Kumar Bajpai said a 16-year-old Dalit minor living in a village under Jalalabad police station area was working in the fields near her house on Monday night when three youths -- Veerbhan, Pramod and Sone -- allegedly forcibly took her to a nearby field where she was raped.