Victim was beaten up for resisting, say cops

A 25-year-old woman, the victim of a gang rape in Faridabad on Tuesday, has been admitted to an ICU with multiple fractures and deep wounds after she was thrown from a moving vehicle, police and doctors said on Wednesday.

- Debashish Karmakar

Investigators said she was brutally assaulted by the two suspects after she resisted.

The incident took place between 3am and 4am on Tuesday near Raja Chowk in Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Nagar in Faridabad. According to the police, the victim had left home to visit a friend on Monday night and was waiting for transport near Metro Chowk when two men in a white Maruti Suzuki Eeco van offered her a lift. Instead, they drove her to a secluded stretch of the Gurugram-Faridabad Road, where they assaulted her for two to three hours.

A senior police official, quoting doctors, said the victim has suffered a fractured right eye socket, a fractured and dislocated shoulder, and two deep cuts on her face that required over 20 stitches. Officials familiar with the case details, who asked not to be iden-