"The sexual behavior ranged from sexual comments, fondling, hugging or kissing in a sexual way, masturbation (and) showing abusive pictures, to oral sex, penetration and intercourse," Anuja Gupta, Director of Recovering and Healing from Incest (RAHI) said.

A report published on Wednesday said a staggering 78 per cent of college-going female students in Delhi had been victims of incest or childhood sexual abuse at home.

The report cited a survey by the Recovering and Healing from Incest (RAHI) non-governmental organization, which conducted interviews with 1,409 female students aged between 16 and 26 years in 39 Delhi colleges.

"The study also discloses that 42 per cent of the abusers includes uncles and cousins while fathers and brothers amount to four percent," the report said.

"The list of abusers also include 26 per cent of neighbors followed by male family friends, servants at 23 per cent and male teachers at 10 per cent," added RAHI director Anuja Gupta.

She said more than half of the women questioned said they had fallen prey to multiple abusers while 30 per cent said they had been molested by two men and 22 per cent by three or more.

"Around 78 per cent (of the 1,409) respondents had experienced more than one type of sexual behaviour," the RAHI chief said.

Gupta's report said as many as 68 per cent of the victims belonged to nuclear families.

Delhi police earlier this year asserted that 90 per cent of around 300 women raped in the Indian capital last year were molested by people known to them or by close relatives.