Arrest after photojournalist gang-raped in Mumbai
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A 22-YEAR-OLD photojournalist was gang-raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten in an isolated, overgrown corner of India’s business hub of Mumbai, police said yesterday.
A man was yesterday arrested in connection with the attack.
The case was reminiscent of the December gang rape and death of a young university student in the Indian capital that shocked the country.
The latest attack took place on Thursday evening in Lower Parel, a onetime textile-manufacturing neighborhood of south Mumbai that over the past decade has changed dramatically. Today, upscale malls, trendy restaurants and luxury condominiums sit next to abandoned textile mills and slums.
Police said the Indian woman was on assignment for a magazine to take pictures of the neighborhood when five men confronted her and her colleague about 7pm.
After initially offering to help her get permission to shoot inside a crumbling building, the men became aggressive and accused the male colleague of being involved in a crime.
When he denied involvement, they tied his hands with a belt and took the woman to another part of the compound and took turns raping her, said Satyapal Singh, Mumbai’s police commissioner.
Police yesterday arrested a suspect in the attack who named and identified the other four men, Singh said. While police have released sketches of the four men, Singh would not give their names or other details, saying authorities did not want to give them any warning that they were being sought. Singh said the men may have been local drug dealers.
The woman was in stable condition in a hospital.
Police declined to say who she was working for at the time of the attack.
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