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NEW DELHI: India’s international image took another beating on Tuesday when an American tourist was gang-raped by a truck driver and his two associates in the hill tourist resort of Manali in Himachal Pradesh.
The latest sexual assault on a western woman tourist in India comes just a day after a 21-year-old Irish charity worker was drugged and raped in Kolkata.
The 30-year-old American woman tourist in Manali was returning home after visiting her friend when she was offered a ride by the culprits. They drove the truck to an isolated place and gang-raped her, according to police. Her medical examination confirmed the rape.
“The 30-year-old was raped by men in a truck on Monday night. They offered her a lift and she accepted it,” police inspector Abhimanyu Kumar was quoted as saying.
He said, “The woman cannot remember the number plate of the truck and she could not understand what the accused were talking about. They drove the truck to an isolated spot and raped her for nearly one hour.’’
All truckers in Manali are being scanned to identify the culprits.
The shameful incident comes just two days after a 21-year-old young Irish charity worker was drugged raped by a Kolkata businessman after a birthday party
Police said the accused Sujoy Mitra, a 35-year-old businessman, mixed her tea with drugs and then raped her.
Mitra, who has been remanded to police custody, took the Irish woman to his home after the party.
The two incidents of sexual assaults on western women come just after two months when a Swiss woman was gangraped in Madhya Pradesh (central India) while on trekking with her husband.
In January, British tourist Jessica Davies to the Taj Mahal in Agra said she escaped being raped by jumping from her hotel room balcony after the hotel manager tried to enter her room forcibly.
These incidents happened after the gangrape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old medical student in the Indian capital which sent shock waves across the world and triggered nationwide protests.
According to a survey, the number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent after the Delhi gangrape and the January incident involving the British woman tourist.
Many western nations have warned women against visiting India.
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India is the rape capital of the world. Not to mention all the slums and filth that are part of this sh*thole country. The Indian prime minister is always busy taking leisure trips all across the globe, meeting world leaders, buying military aircrafts from Russia (because Indians are not good at making their own lol)… The prime minister does all these activities but does nothing to stop these crimes. No harsh law in India against a hineous crime like rape. If you go to the middle east, rapists are either stoned to death or beheaded. But in india, they are allowed to commit crimes, just so that the indian film industry can make “masala” movies out of these sensitive issues.
And guess what, the sexually starved indian politicians in the secrecy of their homes enjoy these sick movies which are based on true rape cases.
These Indians are hypocrites. On one hand they maintain a goody goody public image by dressing in traditional clothes, greet others with folded hands, lectures on spirituality and karma … but on the inside they’re all sexually repressed who wouldn’t hesitate to pounce on a defenseless woman (when the oppurtunity strikes) in order to quench their beastly appetites.
Its best to stay away from these low life scums.
Why are you blaming the British colony? When in fact, it is your original culture ever since before they came. Lol. You can’t deny that it’s Indian men’s main problem because they don’t know how to behave themselves….some countries with lots of Indian communities in New Zealand still harassing their own women and some other migrants except kiwi-indians. Shame on you.
it’s ok, this is India, they used to raped their own mother, sister, daughter or whatever object that look like a female vagina, this is what they called as traditional culture! If anyone feel uncomfortable with this, just go blame the British who colonized India for more than 200 years but didn’t educate them about morality…
fuck india, it will never progress……..
Women should carry weapon & kill or harm them in defence. bastards!