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Eighteen men have appeared in court charged with repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl over a seven-month period.
The men include security guards, lift operators and plumbers working at the apartment block where the little girl lived.
The suspects sedated the girl with drugs and then took her to vacant apartments in the block to assault her, according to police in the Indian city of Chennai.
The men allegedly threatened the girl with knives, and told her that they would release videos of the assault if she told anyone.