Saturday, December 28, 2013

Indian woman gang-raped 'twice in one night'

Police have arrested 10 people in India after a 21-year-old woman was gang-raped twice in one night be two apparently unrelated groups of men.

Six of the men arrested have been charged with gang-raping the woman on the evening of December 24, on officer said on Friday. None of the men have appeared in court.

The women said she had been abducted by three men and raped by one of the men over the course of several hours while she was visiting a friend in Karaikal, a port city in Pondicherry state, officer Monika Bharadwaj said.

After nearly three hours of captivity, she was released and called for help only to be singled out and gang-raped by an apparently separate group of seven men. six of whom raped her, as she was being taken to safety.

The arrests were made on Thursday along with a juvenile male who is being detained for not informing the police about the crime.

The BBC reported that two police officers have also been suspended for initially refusing to register the victim's complaint. Full story...

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