10 arrested in India for raping 21-year-old
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Police arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping a 21-year-old woman in southern India, an officer said yesterday, a year after a fatal gang rape in New Delhi spurred debate on sexual violence in the country.
Officer Monika Bharadwaj said the arrests were made on Thursday after the woman complained that she was abducted and raped while visiting a friend in Karaikal, a port city in Pondicherry state.
Bharadwaj said that the woman has been hospitalized but that she did not suffer serious injuries. Police have also detained a juvenile male for not informing the police about the crime.
Bharadwaj said the woman was first kidnapped by three of the accused around midnight on Tuesday and released after nearly three hours of captivity. As she called her friend to pick her up after she was freed, another group of seven people came in a vehicle and took her away, Bharadwaj said.
Police were questioning the accused to find out whether they knew each other or belonged to two separate groups, Bharadwaj said.
The assault came days after India marked the anniversary of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi that triggered nationwide protests. Four attackers were sentenced to death and a juvenile was sent to a reform center for three years.
Elsewhere, a rapist who attacked a young Spanish woman at knifepoint after breaking into her apartment in Mumbai was jailed for life in India yesterday.
Mohammed Badshah Ansari was handed the sentence after a trial heard how the 28-year-old broke into the flat through a window in November last year and then raped the victim twice while threatening her with a knife.
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