Police in India say 10
men are in custody, after a 21-year-old woman was raped by two
apparently unrelated groups of men on Christmas Eve.
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| Ever since the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi last December, there have been public protests and an outcry against sexual violence |
She was visiting friends in Pondicherry when she was abducted by three men and raped by one of them, officials say.
She found her friends after that ordeal but they were all
confronted by another group of men who singled her out and gang-raped
her, according to police.
The last suspect was arrested on Friday and police say they have confessed.
The suspects have been remanded for 15 days, but they are yet
to be formally charged in court. None of the suspects has publicly
commented on the allegations made against them by the victim.
Pondicherry Senior Superintendent of Police Monika Bharadwaj
told the BBC that this was a particularly bizarre and brutal sequence of
events.
It comes just days before India marks the first anniversary
of the death of the student whose gang-rape on a bus in Delhi sparked
unprecedented public outrage, leading to changes in India's laws against
sexual violence.
'Unrelated attacks'
The incident took place in Pondicherry's port city of
Karaikel. When the woman was briefly left alone after her friends went
into a house, she was abducted by three men.
"One among that group of three people sexually assaulted
her," SSP Bharadwaj told BBC Tamil citing the victim's account of the
sequence of events.
She managed to make contact with her friends who came to help her after that ordeal.
"When they were going back they were waylaid by a second
group, who again picked up the victim and she was taken to a secure
place. There again she was sexually assaulted six times."
According to police, the attackers were not known to the victim and these appear to be unrelated attacks.
Two police officers have also been suspended for initially refusing to register the victim's complaint.
The woman was taken to hospital where she was treated for her injuries and is said to be in a stable condition.
BBC
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