Woman MBA raped in Pune, 2 held

Hindustan Times - HORROR Unfamiliar with city roads, was misled into sharing a tourist car ALL THREE ACCUSED ARE CAB DRIVERS FROM A VILLAGE ALONG THE MUMBAI-PUNE EXPRESSWAY

25-year-old woman who had come from the US in search of a job in Pune, where she want- ed to settle down with her soft- ware engineer-husband was gang raped by three men on Thursday night, police said.

The woman, an MBA in hos- pital management, got into a tourist car, thinking it was a share-taxi in which two men were fellow passengers.

Unfamiliar with Pune roads, she thought she was being driven to the area where she was to attend a function.

To her horror, she was taken to an isolated place in the city and raped by the passengers and the driver and dropped near her residence after midnight. Deputy Commissioner of Police Mahesh Patil said the police took the woman to a for a medical check-up, and later arrested two of the three cul- prits within hours.

Patil said the men were held on the basis of the descriptions the woman gave them, and leads provided by informers. A search is on for the driver. The duo, charged with abduction and rape, were produced before a city court on Friday and are in four days' police custody.