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5 Arrested in Alleged Kidnapping and Rape of Japanese Tourist in India Five Arrested in India Rape Case
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NEW DELHI — Five men have been arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping and rape of a Japanese tourist who said she was held captive for 12 days, the police said. NEW DELHI — Five men have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and rape of a young Japanese woman who said she was held captive for 12 days, the Indian police said Saturday.
The 22-year-old woman said she had been lured to the Gaya district in the state of Bihar, the site of one of India’s holiest Buddhist temples, from Kolkata in late November by a man posing as a tourist guide. When they arrived at the destination, two other men were waiting, and she was held at gunpoint and gang-raped, she told the police. The woman said she had been lured to the Gaya district in the state of Bihar, the site of one of India’s holiest Buddhist temples, from Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, by a man posing as a tour guide. When they arrived at the destination, two others were waiting, she told police, saying those men held her at gunpoint and raped her.
A senior police official in Kolkata, Pallab Kanti Ghosh, said the woman eventually escaped and fled to the city of Varanasi, where she told a group of Japanese tourists what had happened to her. She returned to Kolkata, where she contacted the Japanese consulate, which put her in touch with the police in late December, Mr. Ghosh said. The police said the episode occurred sometime after her arrival in Kolkata on Nov. 20.
Three men in Kolkata were arrested soon after the woman filed her complaint with the police, Mr. Ghosh said. The Kolkata police arrested two other men in connection with the case on Friday in a village in Gaya, said Rakesh Kumar, Gaya’s police superintendent. Anxiety in India over violence against women has been especially high since the December 2012 gang rape of a young Indian woman on a Delhi bus that was so brutal she died of her injuries.
Mr. Ghosh said the men were in the same clan and, posing as tour guides, were able to dupe Japanese tourists. “They know the Japanese language,” he said. Reported details of the latest case, including how long the woman was held, varied widely as the police continued their investigation Saturday. It was unclear how two of the five men were involved in the case.
The five men were arrested on charges of gang rape, wrongful confinement, kidnapping, molestation and criminal conspiracy, Mr. Ghosh said. The police said that at least some of the men were posing as tour guides and reported that at least one spoke Japanese.
A senior police official in Kolkata, Pallab Kanti Ghosh, said Saturday that after being held for nearly two weeks, the woman went to the city of Varanasi, where she found a group of Japanese tourists and told them what had happened. She then returned to Kolkata, where she contacted the Japanese Consulate, which put her in touch with the police in late December, Mr. Ghosh said.
Among the men arrested, according to the Gaya police, were brothers, Shajeed Khan, 32, and Javed Khan, 25, but it was not clear what role they played.