Police has arrested three Indians for allegedly gang
defiling a 22-year-old Japanese research scholar in a
Buddhist pilgrimage center in eastern India, police has
said AP covers the story:
Police were looking for two more suspects
who also allegedly kept the Japanese woman
as a hostage for nearly three weeks in Bodh
Gaya, a town nearly 130 kilometers (80
miles) south of Patna, the capital of Bihar
state, police officer Akhilesh Singh said.
She managed to escape from their captivity
on Dec. 26 and reached Kolkata, once known
as Calcutta, where she was based and filed a
police complaint. She has studying life in
rural India for some time, Singh said.
A Kolkata-based tourist guide had taken the
Japanese woman to Bodh Gaya to show her
the Buddhist pilgrimage center where
Gautam Buddha is said to have obtained
enlightenment under a tree. He was joined by
four others in keeping her in captivity and
defiling her, police officer Singh said.
Two of the arrests were made in Bodh Gaya
on Friday and one earlier this week in
Kolkata, police said. India has a long history
of tolerance of s*xual violence. But a series
of high-profile r*pe cases have triggered a
strong public outrage in recent years, leading
to tough anti-r*pe laws
Source: AP
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