Gurgaon: A 25-year-old woman who left her home after a heated argument with her mother was allegedly gang-raped and brutally assaulted inside a moving van before being thrown onto the Gurgaon–Faridabad road, police said. The assault left her with serious facial injuries that required 12 stitches.
According to investigators, the woman stepped out around 8.30 pm on Monday after informing her sister that she was going to a friend’s place and intended to return within a few hours. However, she was delayed, and by midnight, with no public transport available, she accepted a lift in a van occupied by two men.
Instead of taking her home, the van was allegedly driven towards isolated stretches beyond a Hanuman temple on the Gurgaon–Faridabad road amid dense fog. Police said the woman was held against her will inside the vehicle for nearly three hours. Despite repeated cries for help, sparse traffic and poor visibility meant no assistance arrived.
The family alleged that the two men raped her inside the van during the ordeal. Around 3 am on Tuesday, she was reportedly pushed out of the moving vehicle near Mula Hotel at Raja Chowk in SGM Nagar.
The woman managed to call her sister, who rushed to the spot and took her to Badshah Khan Civil Hospital. Doctors advised shifting her to Delhi due to the severity of her injuries, but she was later admitted to a private hospital in Faridabad.
Police said the van was moving at over 90 kmph when the woman was thrown out near Raja Chowk. Following a complaint at the Kotwali police station, an FIR was registered. Two men have since been arrested, and the vehicle used in the crime — a Maruti Suzuki Eeco — has been seized. Authorities confirmed the woman was forcibly detained as the van travelled through deserted stretches of Faridabad.
