Gurugram: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped and assaulted by two men inside a moving van late Monday night on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road. She was later pushed out of the still-moving vehicle, leaving her with deep facial injuries that required 12 stitches.

Police said the woman remained captive inside the van for nearly three hours as the accused drove through isolated stretches of Faridabad amid dense fog.

According to police, the woman left her home around 8.30 pm after an argument with her mother and told her sister she was heading to a friend’s house. She planned to return in two to three hours but got delayed. Around midnight, unable to find transport, she took a lift from a van. There were two men in the vehicle. Instead of driving her home, they allegedly took a turn towards Gurgaon-Faridabad Road and continued past the Hanuman temple. With biting cold and low visibility keeping the route deserted, her cries for help went unheard, her family said.

The men allegedly took turns raping her before pushing her out of the van near Mula Hotel at Raja Chowk in SGM Nagar around 3am. The injured woman somehow contacted her sister, who rushed her to a hospital. Doctors advised shifting her to a Delhi hospital, but the family chose to admit her to a private facility in Faridabad.

Following a complaint by the family, a case was registered at Kotwali police station. A crime branch team detained two suspects on Tuesday, police sources said. The investigation is ongoing