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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The five men were arrested on charges of gang
rape, wrongful confinement, kidnapping, moles
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