Posted on 01/20/2014 9:45:41 PM PST by robowombat
Lost Danish tourist ‘gang-raped’ in Delhi: police
January 16, 2014
NEW DELHI: Indian police rounded up a group of homeless men on Wednesday over the alleged gang-rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist who lost her way near the main backpacker’s area of the capital, officers said.
The woman approached the suspects for directions early on Tuesday evening while trying to return to her hotel in the bustling Paharganj district of New Delhi, reportedly after visiting a city museum. Up to six “youngsters” allegedly assaulted and robbed the victim, who was travelling alone and had been in New Delhi since Monday after visiting the Taj Mahal, police and a receptionist at her hotel told AFP. “We have detained a group of men and we are questioning them over the incident,” special commissioner of police Deepak Mishra told AFP.
A senior investigating officer in the Paharganj police station told AFP on condition of anonymity that the victim was held hostage at knife-point for three hours and had been kicked and slapped. Her mobile phone and cash were also stolen.
The alleged attack just minutes from Connaught Place in the heart of the capital is the latest involving a foreigner in India, and again raises questions about the safety of women in the world’s second most populous country. Last month, India marked the first anniversary of the death of the student who was gang-raped on a moving bus in the capital in an attack that sent shockwaves across the nation.
The Danish victim refused to be medically examined and was clearly traumatised by the experience, but gave a detailed statement overnight in the presence of her country’s ambassador, police said. She has since left India.
“We have identified around four to six people who are the prime suspects in the case,” the investigating policeman said, adding that they appeared to be “vagabonds”. “She told us that the attackers were mostly youngsters,” he added.
The crime scene was inside the grounds of the Railway Officers Club on State Entry Road with the victim saying she was dragged to a secluded area shrouded by trees near a statue, police said. A police forensic team visited on Wednesday morning and police are in possession of the clothes the victim was wearing at the time of the attack.
Kuldeep Singh, a receptionist at the victim’s hotel, said the woman had appeared calm when she returned at about 8:30pm (1500 GMT) but then confided in a fellow traveller.
“She first came to me at the reception desk and told me that she needed 200 rupees to give to the auto driver as she had been robbed,” Singh said. Danish ambassador Freddy Svane told AFP the embassy was providing assistance to the woman, but declined to give further details. The case comes after a Polish woman was allegedly drugged and raped by a taxi driver earlier this month while travelling with her two-year-old daughter to New Delhi.
Women tourists in Paharganj said they were aware of past cases and the new incident had rung alarm bells.
“I felt very unsafe with walking the streets and seeing what you see and everybody staring at you, but you can’t not travel to India because of it,” said Jessica Orpwood, a 21-year-old student backpacker from New Zealand. Protests over sexual violence in the last year have prompted India’s parliament to toughen laws for rapists and other offenders, while other judicial and police reforms that have encouraged women to report attacks.
But daily accounts of brutal assaults continue to be reported in the country’s newspapers.
A schoolgirl was raped by eight men in the eastern city of Ranchi this week while they held her male friend, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday. A judge last month sentenced three Nepalese men to 20 years in jail for the gang-rape of a US tourist in June in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
we have to stop thinking that being nice, polite, and considerate are going to protect us from the animals, whether it be here in the USA or elsewhere....
peace thru strength.....
Existence is intrinsically evil.
Only nations rooted in Christian values protect women.
people visit India at their peril.
Having been there many times , it is the singularly most messed up place I have ever seen . Total sleazy corruption , people crapping all over the place . Lurking ,staring people everywhere . Relentless tides of beggars who you absolutely cannot give to otherwise dozens turn into 100’s in minutes . Humanity has utterly driven away whatever holiness that ever existed there . If you are wealthy and upper caste , I’m sure it’s wonderful . But if you are a ‘tourist’ , forget it . Many nicer places in this world to visit with none of the screwed vibes
Indian Trayvons...
And these are the folks Globalist Communists want to bring in to take all your high tech jobs....
India is a major Third World S-Hole.
confirms what I wrote
entirely too much humanity
no wonder so many immigrate to America these days
to get away from this !
Been there, done that. Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore. All makes Detroit look like Beverly Hills. Never had an experience where monkeys and rats just nestle in a restaurant? Happened to us. They worship these vermin. Cows in the middle of the city intersection. When I came back, I had an appreciation of how nice the barrios of los angeles were. Yeah, that bad.
No wonder the Pakistanis can’t stand these people. Bottom of the barrel in the sanitation department. Definitely HELL on earth. Couldn’t pay me enough to do the tourist thingy. Seriously!
Wow! And I feel bad that I don’t dust and vacuum enough.
I remember talking to a man who was in India during the second world war. He said when they landed there he got off the plane, took one breath and felt like he did’nt want to take a second breath because it smelled so rotten.
Can a gun protect India’s women from rape and violence?
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Uh, you can't? What, did your parents say, "Get a job or move out!" and the only place you can afford to crash is India?
I was in a fast food establishment once, the place was practically empty at time. As I was feeding on my burger, an Indian type person sat down about 10 feet away from me. From his appearance, he was clearly not a homeless person.
Instantly, a wave of the most vile and disgusting odor swept over me, and I was forced to move as far away from this person as I could.
I can only imagine that odor multiplied by several hundred million, but that’s what India must smell like.
Traveling alone ?
Must be a libtard...
Remember “we are the world”....
Wow....can’t wait to visit India / s
Wow.....a person can almost smell the stench on their computers.
“a 21-year-old student backpacker from New Zealand”
Crazy, and living in denial. Maybe they never got to see “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” in New Zealand; they might have learned from it. Why would someone from New Zealand ever go to India unless their work forced them to go? I have never met someone who went to India as a tourist, and I’ve never met someone who wanted to...
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