TOKYO: Indian police have arrested five men in connection with the alleged abduction and gang-rape of a 23-year-old Japanese tourist, officials said on Saturday.
The woman had filed a complaint through the Japanese consulate in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata saying she had been staying in a budget hotel in the city in November when three local men who spoke Japanese befriended her and took her to the seaside resort of Digha in the state of West Bengal.
Kolkata police said she claimed they had robbed her and then taken her to Bodh Gaya, a major Buddhist pilgrimage and tourist centre in the eastern state of Bihar.
There, she alleged that two more men joined them and raped her.The university student was allegedly held for three weeks.When her health condition deteriorated due to repeated rape and poor living conditions, she was brought to Gaya (district headquarters) for medical treatment on December 20,” an investigating police officer told news agency Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
But she managed to escape and reached Varanasi where she met some Japanese tourists who helped her contact the Japanese consulate in Kolkata, the officer added.
