The police say Kasim Bengali was the most violent of the gang that accosted the girl and her colleague at the abandone Shakti Mills compound on Thursday evening. He had raped the girl twice.
The sexual assault in the heart of Mumbai, usually considered one of India's safest cities for women, has triggered outrage across the country.
The survivor, who was interning at a local English magazine, remains in hospital and is recovering well from internal and external injuries, said doctors attending to her. "Rape is not the end of life; I want to get back to work," she is reported to have said to Nirmala Samant Prabhawalkar, a member of the National Commission for Women, who visited her in hospital.
The grandmother of Chand Sheikh, the first suspect to be arrested, has even claimed that he been incorrectly described by the police as a 19-year-old and that he is actually 16, which would entitle him to a trial in a court for juveniles.(Read)
Sarana Bai met NDTV at the small home where she lives with Chand in a slum that's a 15-minute walk from Shakti Mill.
The woman has told the police that her attackers held a broken beer bottle above her head to deter her from shouting for help. The young woman's mother called her twice and she was ordered to answer it without giving away a hint of the nightmare she was going through. (Read:Broken beer bottle held over Mumbai gang-rape survivor's head)
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