A teenage college girl raped, stabbed multiple times and dumped by the road presumed dead is afraid for her life as one of her attackers is still at large.

The rape victim, a 19-year-old who recently passed her Intermediate exam from Pandaul College in Madhubani, was abducted from an area in Madhubani town around 200km northeast of Patna on the night of May 18.

Raped in a moving vehicle, she was found unconscious the next morning by the road near Shisua village. She was admitted to Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital with multiple stab wounds all over her body.

She is now stable but her family apprehends threat to her life from the attackers who have not been arrested close to a week since the crime.

A close relative of the girl from a village under Madhubani Town police station said: "She is feeling unsafe as there is no female constable to take care of her security in the hospital."

An FIR has been lodged at Madhubani Town police station based on the girl's statement.

She was raped by a driver and his accomplice in a Tata Magic vehicle after being abducted from Kaitola Chowk of Madhubani town around 9pm on May 18, the statement mentions. She was taken to a secluded place and raped by the duo.

Her cries for help went unheeded as the area was isolated. Presuming her dead, the culprits dumped her in a roadside bush around 11pm. the officers investigating the case claimed.

She was later found unconscious beside the roadside on the outskirts of Shisua village under Pandaul police station, around 10km southwest of the Madhubani district headquarters, on the morning of May 19. Residents, who first found her, rushed her to a local government hospital.

Doctors attending to the girl at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital said she had 12 stab marks (from a knife) on her neck, chest and lower parts of the abdomen.

"She is recuperating and will be in a position to get her statement recorded in the next couple of days," a doctor told The Telegraph.

The police, for now, have asked the girl to recollect whatever she remembered of the day, and sources said a detailed statement would be taken once she's up for it.

Madhubani superintendent of police Akhtar Hussain said the main accused, Md. Salman, was arrested from his Balat village under jurisdiction of Sakri police station in the district a day after the crime. The knife used in the crime and the victim's ATM card were recovered, he added.

"The police have launched a hunt for Salman's accomplice, who was with him in the vehicle at the time of the incident," the SP said. "The fugitive will be nabbed soon."

The police have also moved court to obtain order of attachment of the accomplice's property.

Madhubani Town police station house officer Yogesh Chandra, however, claimed that the girl was in love with Salman for the past three years. "Sisters-in-law of the victim are from Salman's village," he said. "That's how the two met at Balat."

The girl's father is employed in Saudi Arabia while the family lives at the village. "She had developed a relationship with Salman while visiting her relative's house in Balat," Chandra said.

According to preliminary investigation, the SHO said, Salman was hired as a driver by a local public school. He had taken Rs 43,000 as loan from the girl and on the day of the incident, he called her Madhubani on the pretext of returning her money.

However, when she arrived at the spot, Salman and his associate kidnapped her and took turns to rape her in the running vehicle.

An investigating officer said the police caught up with Salman by tracking his cellphone location. The officer added that the girl had been medically examined at the Madhubani sadar hospital and the medical report was awaited.

About the rape victim's security, Madhubani sadar sub-divisional police officer Satya Prakash said she would be kept safe.

"Apart from investigation, we are also looking into her security," he said.

A practising lawyer in the Madhubani civil court, Ram Sharan Sah, said: "The incident has reminded people of the December 2012 Delhi rape in which a young girl was raped in a running bus by the conductor and his accomplices. The civil society members should come forward to fight against such incidents."