On Monday evening, Taj asked the woman to meet him so that the two could go for wedding shopping. Later, Taj picked her up from the meeting place in an auto-rickshaw in which Ekhlasur was already seated.

The woman lodged a complaint at the Jalalabad police station on Tuesday, based on which an FIR for rape was filed against the accused. “Efforts are on to nab the third accused on the run,” a police official said.

The woman has been sent to the local one-stop crisis centre for treatment.