NEW DELHI, India – A Japanese woman has told Indian police
she was raped by a tourist guide in the historic northern city of
Jaipur, in the latest sex attack on a foreigner, an officer said today.
The 20-year-old told police the guide offered to show her around
Jaipur on his motorbike yesterday before attacking her in an isolated
part of the city in the evening, the officer said.
“We have received a complaint from a Japanese tourist alleging rape
by a local man yesterday (Sunday),” Dharam Chand Jain, police inspector
general for Jaipur district, said.
“The accused offered to drop her at the hotel in the evening but took her to a desolate area… and allegedly raped her,” he said.
“The tourist alleged that she was offered some food which might have been laced with drugs.”
The case is the latest in a string of high-profile sex attacks that
have highlighted high levels of violence against women in the world’s
second-most-populous country.
Six men from the eastern city of Kolkata were charged last month with kidnapping and gang-raping a 22-year-old Japanese tourist.
The woman was allegedly held hostage for a month after travelling to
the Buddhist shrine of Bodh Gaya in neighbouring Bihar state.
India has faced intense scrutiny over its efforts to curb violence
against women following the fatal gang rape of a medical student in New
Delhi in December 2012,which
sparked a global outcry.
Source: AFP
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