A 20-year-old woman in eastern India was gang-raped by 13 men on the orders of a village court as punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community, a senior police officer said on Thursday. The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, told police she was assaulted by the men on the night of Jan. 20 in Birbhum district in West Bengal.br br Police said that her male companion was tied up in the village square, while the assault on the woman happened in a mud house. "We arrested all the 13 men, including the village chief who ordered the gang rape.