25-year-old Israeli woman gangraped in northern India: police
Xinhua, July 25, 2016 Adjust font size:
A 25-year-old Israeli woman has been allegedly gangraped by two men in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Sunday, a senior police official said Monday.
"The incident happened near Manali town Sunday morning after the victim hitchhiked a car ride to reach the hill resort from state capital Shimla as she could not get a cab," he said, on condition of anonymity.
In her complaint, the woman has alleged that there were six men in the vehicle and two of them had sexually assaulted her, before dropping her in Manali, the official said.
A probe has been ordered into the incident and a manhunt launched to track down the perpetraors of the crime, who are on the run, he added.
India hiked punishments for rapists as part of an overhaul of sexual assault laws in the wake of a fatal gang-rape in 2012 that shone a global spotlight on frightening levels of violence against women in India.
But rape and sexual assault remain commonplace, with incidents hitting the headlines on an almost daily basis.
An American woman was raped in Manali in 2013 by three men when she took a ride with them in a truck. In 2012 an Australian woman was also raped in the same area, located in the picturesque Kullu Valley of Himachal Pradesh state. Enditem