BANGALORE, Aug 22 (Iexpress): Three men, including the son of a BAMUL board director, allegedly raped a 23-year-old woman after offering to drop her home on Wednesday. The incident was reported from Tavarekere on Magadi Road on the outskirts of the city. After the incident, the girl ran to the main road, her clothes in disarray, crying for help.

The drunk gang took her to a farmhouse in Tippagondanahalli near Tavarekere and repeatedly raped her, police said. The men have been identified as Arun Kumar Gowda alias Gooli (24), Kempa (24) and Mahadev (43), all residents of Magadi.

Gowda is the son of Narasimha Murthy, board of director at the Bangalore Urban, Rural and Ramanagaram District Co-Operative Milk Producers Societies Union (BAMUL), Magadi taluk. He runs a cement and steel business in Magadi, while Kempa works in a timber yard. Mahadeva is employed at the farmhouse.

The girl (23), who sells garments on the footpath near the Kempegowda Bus Station in Majestic, was waiting for a bus at 9.30 pm when two men appeared in a car and offered to drop her to her house in

Vijayanagar. She believed them and got in. Gowda allegedly drove towards the farmhouse belonging to his friend Muniraju, while Kempa pinned her down in the back seat.

Mahadev, who was at the farmhouse, also joined them in allegedly raping her. The girl escaped after Gowda and Kempa had left, and was sobbing and seeking help on the main road. A cab driver pitied her and drove her to the police station, where she explained what had happened.

Police claimed the three men had confessed to the crime.