Patna: Two youths accused in the gang-rape of a minor girl near the GPO roundabout in the early hours of Sunday surrendered in a local court on Wednesday.

Monu Kumar and Bauwa, both in their 20s, who surrendered, were absconding after the incident. A police patrol, alerted by the girls' cries for help, had nabbed two others - Chotan and Phekan - when they were trying to flee after committing the crime. Chotan and Phekan had confessed and disclosed the names of their associates, police sources said.

Patna zone inspector-general of police (IG) Nayyar Hasnain Khan said on Wednesday that the special investigation team probing the case raiding hideouts of the accused led the duo to surrender in the court.

"I have directed the investigating officer to take the accused on police remand for further interrogation and complete the investigation at the earliest. As all the four accused in the case have been arrested, the police will soon submit charge sheet in the case," IG Khan said.

Both Monu and Bauwa sell vegetables near the GPO roundabout, around 500 metres from the Kotwali police station.

The four men had accosted the girl when she was going to catch a train from Patna junction around midnight, forcibly taken her to a nearby makeshift shop and raped her.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP), law and order, Shibli Nomani said the girl had identified the arrested youths. The girl had told the police that she had come from Hilsa in Nalanda by train to meet Monu, with whom she was in touch for a few days.

"Monu had taken my cellphone and was blackmailing. I had not imagined that such an incident would happen with me. They have ruined my life," she is learnt to have told her interrogators.

The girl's parents, stated to be daily wage labourers, had told the police that she had eloped from home earlier.

The girl was reunited with her parents after her statement was recorded in the court under Section 164 of CrPC on Monday.

The girl's medical report is still awaited.

The accused have been booked under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.