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Danish tourist gang-raped in Indian capital after asking for directions, police say
DELHI — A Danish woman has been held at knife-point, beaten and gang-raped in the centre of New Delhi’s backpacker district after asking a group of young men for directions to her hotel.
Police said the 51-year-old tourist was attacked on Tuesday in the latest in a series of rapes that have shocked India.
It came as the family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly twice gang-raped and later murdered in Calcutta called for the High Court to order an inquiry into her killing.
Women’s rights campaigners said that, despite the widespread protests provoked by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi student just over a year ago, police were still failing to provide protection and implement new tougher laws to curb the assaults.
The Danish woman had arrived in Delhi after visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and was attacked as she made her way back to her hotel in Parhaganj, close to New Delhi railway station, after visiting the national museum.
She had become lost and was attacked after she asked a group of men in their early 20s for directions. “They slapped and punched her and threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm,” an investigating officer said. “They held her hostage for more than an hour and let her go only after taking away her money, mobile and other valuables.”
Two homeless men have been arrested. The woman is understood to have left India to return to Denmark Wednesday.
The case alarmed campaigners who said it reflected a continuing high level of gang-rapes, despite tougher sentences for sexual assaults being introduced last year following the December 2012 gang-rape and murder.
Sentences can include the death penalty if the victim dies from her injuries.
The Calcutta schoolgirl who was allegedly gang-raped twice in 24 hours – the second time after she complained to police about the attack – was set on fire and died from her injuries on New Year’s Eve after a campaign of intimidation to force her to drop the charges.
The victim’s parents have accused local police of failing to protect their daughter and have called for India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry. Calcutta’s High Court is expect to rule on the request today.
A Polish woman was raped earlier this month after she was drugged by a taxi driver as she travelled with her infant daughter to Delhi.
Three men were sentenced to 20 years in jail for the gang-rape of an American tourist in Himachal Pradesh last summer, while six men were jailed for life in July for the gang-rape of a Swiss woman as she camped with her husband during a cycling holiday in Madhya Pradesh.
“I’m not sure the new [tougher] laws are being implemented with the rigour they were supposed to,” said Vinda Grover, a lawyer.
“We have a society which is deeply misogynist and it won’t change unless there is a conversation.”
She said foreign women were particularly vulnerable because they did not have the heightened sense of alert which Indian women had developed to protect themselves in the country’s “misogynist culture”.
Danish tourist gang-raped in Indian capital after asking for directions, police say
DELHI — A Danish woman has been held at knife-point, beaten and gang-raped in the centre of New Delhi’s backpacker district after asking a group of young men for directions to her hotel.
Police said the 51-year-old tourist was attacked on Tuesday in the latest in a series of rapes that have shocked India.
It came as the family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly twice gang-raped and later murdered in Calcutta called for the High Court to order an inquiry into her killing.
Women’s rights campaigners said that, despite the widespread protests provoked by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi student just over a year ago, police were still failing to provide protection and implement new tougher laws to curb the assaults.
The Danish woman had arrived in Delhi after visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and was attacked as she made her way back to her hotel in Parhaganj, close to New Delhi railway station, after visiting the national museum.
She had become lost and was attacked after she asked a group of men in their early 20s for directions. “They slapped and punched her and threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm,” an investigating officer said. “They held her hostage for more than an hour and let her go only after taking away her money, mobile and other valuables.”
Two homeless men have been arrested. The woman is understood to have left India to return to Denmark Wednesday.
The case alarmed campaigners who said it reflected a continuing high level of gang-rapes, despite tougher sentences for sexual assaults being introduced last year following the December 2012 gang-rape and murder.
Sentences can include the death penalty if the victim dies from her injuries.
The Calcutta schoolgirl who was allegedly gang-raped twice in 24 hours – the second time after she complained to police about the attack – was set on fire and died from her injuries on New Year’s Eve after a campaign of intimidation to force her to drop the charges.
The victim’s parents have accused local police of failing to protect their daughter and have called for India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry. Calcutta’s High Court is expect to rule on the request today.
A Polish woman was raped earlier this month after she was drugged by a taxi driver as she travelled with her infant daughter to Delhi.
Three men were sentenced to 20 years in jail for the gang-rape of an American tourist in Himachal Pradesh last summer, while six men were jailed for life in July for the gang-rape of a Swiss woman as she camped with her husband during a cycling holiday in Madhya Pradesh.
“I’m not sure the new [tougher] laws are being implemented with the rigour they were supposed to,” said Vinda Grover, a lawyer.
“We have a society which is deeply misogynist and it won’t change unless there is a conversation.”
She said foreign women were particularly vulnerable because they did not have the heightened sense of alert which Indian women had developed to protect themselves in the country’s “misogynist culture”.
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