Officials vow swift justice over gang rape
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Indian officials yesterday promised swift justice over the gang rape of a young photographer in Mumbai, as the final suspect appeared in court over the attack that sparked angry protests.
Five men have been arrested on suspicion of raping the 22-year-old woman in central Mumbai last Thursday when she was on assignment for a magazine with a male colleague.
Mohammed Salim Ansari, 27, was produced before a magistrates’ court yesterday. He was remanded in police custody until September 5.
The attack reignited widespread anger at the treatment of women in India that first erupted in December after the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi.
“We will submit a charge sheet in a court of law as soon as possible and the case will be done in a fast-track court,” Mumbai’s police commissioner Satyapal Singh said.
The chief minister of Maharashtra state, Prithviraj Chavan, has also promised a fast-track case “to ensure speedy justice to the victim.”
During the attack, the woman’s male colleague was allegedly tied up with a belt while the perpetrators repeatedly raped the photographer nearby.
The four alleged accomplices were earlier arrested in Mumbai.
Relatives of two of the accused told media they are juveniles but Singh insisted they were all unemployed adults and school drop-outs who were born and grew up in the city.
A court remand sheet shows the men are aged 18 to 27. Singh said three suspects had criminal records for theft.
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