22 YEAR OLD JAPANESE WOMAN GANG RAPED IN INDIA FOR WEEKS

Maha Bodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India. ไทย: วัดมหาโพธิ์ พุทธคยา ประเทศอินเดีย (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Japanese woman was abducted by three men while doing research near a Buddhist pilgrimage centre in eastern India. She was held near the centre at Bodh Gaya where Gautam Buddha is said to have found enlightenment under a tree There she was brutaly gang raped and held for several weeks.                                        "We have arrested three people from Kolkata and two from Gaya in Bihar. This gang used to operate from Kolkata and used to dupe and sometimes physically abuse  Japanese tourists" said Joint Commissioner of Police, PK Ghose. "She was forced on a bus from Digha to Bodh Gaya where two members of the gang raped her" Ghose said While two of the accused have been charged with rape, three others have been booked for cheating,criminal conspiracy and kidnapping among other offences. The woman managed to escape from the secluded basement where she was held to Varanasi, a city in the neighbouring state.Afterwards she reached Kolkata where she lodged a complaint of fraudulent withdrawal of money and rape.       Following a spate of high profile rapes India has doubled the prison term for rape to 20years, it has also made it a crime for officers not to investigate once a complaint of rape is made.

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INDIA REELS FROM ANOTHER CASE OF GANG RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Praying for recovery of rape victim India Gate-008 (Photo credit: ramesh_lalwani)

TRIBAL ELDERS ORDER THE HORRIFIC RAPE IN PUBLIC BY UP TO 12 MEN OF 20 YEAR OLD FEMALE FOR"UNAUTHORISED" RELATIONSHIP, POLICE SAY.                                                                                                                                   The horrific rape took place in Burbham district around 120miles from Kolkata, West Bengal and was punishment for her having an affair with a man from a different village and caste and then her subsequent failure to pay a fine of 50,000 rupee (£490) local media reported.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

“According to the woman, the [village head] summoned her and her [lover] on Monday and detained them through the day and night. After her family said they could not pay the fine, the [head] allegedly ordered the mass rape on Tuesday,” police superintendant C Sudhakar told The Hindustan Times newspaper.                                                                                                                                                                 The women ,who is now recovering in hospital, said she had lost count of the number of attackers, Eleven men, a number of which were her neighbours, have been arrested in connection to the rape, including the village head.                                                                                                                                                Gang rape in india seems to becoming ever more prevalent , only last week a 51-year-old tourist in Delhi was raped by at least five men on her way home on foot from a popular Delhi national museum and shopping center. The women who is now home in Denmark was also robbed and beaten in the attack. Delhi police confirmed that a robbery and rape case had been registered. "We are questioning a group of men," said Rajan Bhagat, a police spokesman.                                                                                                                                                                       Every week India's media describe attacks on women across the country, often involving several men and frequently resulting in the death of the victim. On Wednesday, newspapers reported the gang-rape of a teenager in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Last week a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped, tortured and killed in Uttarakhand's Haridwar district. In southern Andhra Pradesh, nine men arrested earlier this month reportedly told police they had raped 59 women in the past two years.                                                                                                                                                                The United Nations asked India, the world's second most populous country, to ensure security for women. But although prison terms for rape have been stiffened, stalking made a criminal offence and gender sensitivity programmes introduced for some police officers, little appears to have changed on the ground.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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