India: three arrested after gang rape of Spanish woman of Brazilian origin

Three men were arrested this Saturday after a Spanish tourist of Brazilian origin was the victim of a gang rape in a remote eastern region Indiawhere she was traveling with her husband, local media reported.

The attack occurred on Friday night in the district of Dumkain the eastern state of Jharkhandwhere the couple, who were traveling on a motorcycle, stopped to camp.

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The woman managed to contact a police patrol around 11pm and was taken to a hospital, the police officer said. police officer Pitamber Singh Kherwar told The Times of India.

According to Kherwarthe police arrested three people in relationship with aggressionalthough he continues to look for other suspects.

According to the press, the woman is being treated at a hospital in Dumka and the police opened an investigation.

In 2022, they were reported in India an average of 90 rapes daily, according to the national criminal records office.

However, many of these attacks go unreported due to the stigma that victims often suffer and also due to the lack of trust in the work of the police.

Convictions are rarely issued and many cases end up trapped in the country’s judicial system, very saturated.

But, in 2012, the case of a student victim of a gang rape and then murdered made headlines around the world.

Jyoti Singh23-year-old psychotherapy student, was raped and abandoned, left for dead, by five men and a teenager on a bus in New Delhi in December of that year.

The case brought to light the high levels of sexual violence in India and led to weeks of protests and a change in legislationto punish the crime of rape with the death penalty.

Source: Elcomercio

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