A 17-year-old who'd run away from home after a fight with her stepmother survived a month after being tortured by three brutes who'd promised to help her, but allegedly repeatedly raped her instead. Two of the rapists were caught on Thursday; one of them is an Uber cab driver.

Speaking about how the horror unfolded, senior inspector Ravindra Chaudhar of Alandi police station said, "On September 11, the teenager had a fight with her stepmother on some petty issue, after which she left from home. When she was walking on the road, a man named Ramchandra approached her then took her to a lodge, assuring he'd help her. Once they were at the Chandra lodge, raped her there." He added, "The next day, after they left from the lodge, the girl started crying. So, he threw her in the middle of the road and left. Then at night, when she was thirsty, the Uber driver named Abdul approached her. He showed her his ID card and under the pretext of taking her to police station, but took her to his friend Vijay's house instead. Vijay then proceeded to rape her for two days."