Indian police arrest 3 in rape of US woman
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June 7, 2013, Friday
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POLICE arrested three men yesterday accused of raping a 30-year-old American woman in a hill resort in northern India, in a case that has thrown fresh scrutiny on the high rate of sex crimes against women in the country.
The woman, who has not been identified, was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitch-hiking back to her guest house in the town of Manali in Himachal Pradesh after spending an evening with friends, police said. She had been unable to find a taxi to take her home.
The suspects, who are all in their early twenties, are being interrogated by police and their truck has been seized. The woman told police her attackers took her to an isolated area instead of driving to her hotel, and then raped her.
The brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old Indian woman on a bus on December 16 in New Delhi sparked a global outcry and brought thousands of people onto the streets of India in protest, demanding better policing to prevent sex crimes. The trainee physiotherapist later died from her injuries. On Wednesday, police arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
The woman, who has not been identified, was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitch-hiking back to her guest house in the town of Manali in Himachal Pradesh after spending an evening with friends, police said. She had been unable to find a taxi to take her home.
The suspects, who are all in their early twenties, are being interrogated by police and their truck has been seized. The woman told police her attackers took her to an isolated area instead of driving to her hotel, and then raped her.
The brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old Indian woman on a bus on December 16 in New Delhi sparked a global outcry and brought thousands of people onto the streets of India in protest, demanding better policing to prevent sex crimes. The trainee physiotherapist later died from her injuries. On Wednesday, police arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
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