A 36-year-old Delhi woman was found “wrapped in a jute bag, with her hands and legs tied and an iron rod still inserted in her private part”, a case that Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief said reminded her of the Nirbhaya incident.

According to the panel, the woman was waiting for an auto-rickshaw at a bus-stop to attend her brother's birthday celebration on October 16 when four men kidnapped her in an SUV.

They, along with another man, allegedly gang-raped and tortured her for two days, it said. The five men named in the FIR are Dinu, Shahrukh, Javed, Dhola and Aurangzeb.

The woman is being treated at a hospital in Delhi, but is in a "very critical condition", it said.

According to Ghaziabad Superintendent of Police Nipun Agarwal, the incident came to light after the police received information that a woman was found lying near Ghaziabad's Ashram Road. Police then took her to a hospital and she registered a complaint from the hospital.

He added that the incident might be in connection with a property dispute between the parties involved. He also said that the woman knew all the five men who raped her.

The 2012 Nirbhaya case, very similar to this had provoked national outrage and prompted the government to pass tougher laws to check crimes against women.