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Indian police officers accused of raping girl, 14, in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh
Date January 3, 2015 - 1:39PM
Hari Kumar
A vigil for the two girls who died in Budaun in May, a case which provoked a public outcry. Photo: AP
Delhi: Indian police were searching for two officers in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh after a 14-year-old girl from a local village accused them of raping her.
Veer Pal Singh Yadav and Avnish Yadav, who were in charge of patrolling the girl's village and are not related, were suspended and are now missing, according to Budaun police chief Santosh Kumar Singh.
"I am on the move with a police team and raiding different places to arrest the named constables," said Ram Lakhan Yadav, a police official in charge of the Musajhag police station in Budaun, where the rape was said to have taken place.
In an interview with Indian news channel Times Now, the girl's mother said her daughter went to relieve herself in the fields outside their house on Wednesday night when she was seized by the two police officers, taken to a room in the local police station and raped. The girl's family said she was brought home at midnight.
The girl's uncle, who was at the government hospital in Budaun where she was being examined on Friday, said she was snatched at 8pm on Wednesday by the officers, who often kept watch over her village, Prahladpur. Her mother called him and the head of the village, and the family took the girl to the district headquarters to report the case the next morning.
"These two cops are the area constables," said Sudhir Pathak, the head of the village. "They used to come to our village quite frequently. They would frequently sit in front of the girl's house."
The girl was at home with her mother on Wednesday night, while her father was out of town for eye surgery, her uncle said.
The district of Budaun came under intense national scrutiny in May after the bodies of two girls were found hanging from a mango tree. The family initially said the girls had been raped and murdered by a group of men abetted by local police officers, and the police said they had confirmed the rape. But in November, India's top investigating agency announced after an inquiry that there had been no rape and that the girls had committed suicide. The case initially provoked a public outcry, and many criticised the state government for not going after the accused forcefully enough.
A temple in Bodh Gaya, where the alleged gang rape and hostage-taking occurred
Police arrested three Indians for allegedly gang raping a 22-year-old Japanese research scholar in a Buddhist pilgrimage centre in eastern India, police said.
Police were looking for two more suspects who also allegedly kept the Japanese woman as a hostage for nearly three weeks in Bodh Gaya, a town nearly 130 kilometres south of Patna, the capital of Bihar state, police officer Akhilesh Singh said on Friday.
She managed to escape from their captivity on December 26 and reached Kolkata, once known as Calcutta, where she was based and filed a police complaint. She has studying life in rural India for some time, Singh said.
A Calcutta-based tourist guide had taken the Japanese woman to Bodh Gaya to show her the Buddhist pilgrimage centre where Gautam Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment under a tree.
He was joined by four others in keeping her in captivity and raping her, police officer Singh said.
Two of the arrests were made in Bodh Gaya on Friday and one earlier this week in Calcutta, police said.
India has a long history of tolerance of sexual violence. But a series of high-profile rape cases have triggered a strong public outrage in recent years, leading to tough anti-rape laws.
India has doubled prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalized voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. The law also makes it a crime for officers to refuse to open cases when complaints are made.
Five Indian men arrested for 'forcing Japanese tourist to be their sex slave'
Five Indian men arrested for 'forcing Japanese tourist to be their sex slave'
Japanese tourist was allegedly held in basement for almost a month where she has been gang-raped in latest high-profile attack in the nation
Foreigners walk on Sudder Street, a centrally located area popular among foreign backpackers, in Kolkata. Photo: AP
Five men have been arrested over the alleged gang-rape and extortion of a Japanese tourist in India as more details emerged of her confinement in a basement where she was allegedly held as a sex slave for nearly a month.
The 22-year-old's ordeal began in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state, where she was befriended by three local men shortly after arriving on November 20, one of the city's top police officers said. Police named the men as Japani Sahid, Sabir and Wasim Khan, according to Hindustan Times.
The men, one of whom spoke Japanese, first managed to persuade her to withdraw around US$1,200 in cash before travelling with her to the holy Buddhist shrine of Bodh Gaya in the neighbouring state of Bihar.
There she was then handed over to two brothers, Sahid Khan and Javed Khan, who allegedly locked her in a secluded underground room and repeatedly raped her for nearly a month.
The case is the latest in a string of high-profile sex attacks that have highlighted the frightening levels of violence against women in the world's second most populous country.
The two brothers, who were working as tourist guides, were arrested on Friday and taken to Kolkata where they appeared in court late on Saturday.
A magistrate ordered that they be remanded in custody until January 9 for an identification parade. Kolkata joint police commissioner Pallab Kanti Ghosh said the other three men were being held on suspicion of extorting money from the victim and then handing her over to the alleged rapists.
"We have arrested three people who befriended the victim in Kolkata. They have been charged with common conspiracy and intention to kidnap and rape," the commissioner said.
"The men managed to extort 76,000 rupees (HK$9,500) from her and convinced her to travel to Bodh Gaya with them in their car," he said.
The woman managed to escape from Gaya and reached the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, where she met some Japanese tourists who helped her contact the consulate in Kolkata. When she told them of her ordeal to them, some women in the group reportedly told her that they knew the first three men and had been extorted for money, according the Hindustan Times.
Although it was not immediately clear when her ordeal ended, police said she filed the police report in the last week of December.
"(When) we came to know of the incident ... we assisted her in registering the complaint with the police," Japan's consul-general in Kolkata, Kazumi Endo, said. Indian Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma conceded that the incident would dent India's image further.
"We are only getting 69 lakh (6.9 million) tourists in a year so that's a matter of concern for us. (We have) to take care of the security of travellers," he said.
Samina Khatoon, sister of the men arrested in Gaya, denied the charge of gang rape and demanded a thorough probe into the incident.
"We also want a medical examination of the victim. It will prove that my brothers are innocent," she said.
India has faced intense scrutiny over its efforts to curb violence against women following the fatal gang rape of a medical student in New Delhi in December 2012, which sparked a global outcry. Sex attacks against women from Western countries, including the US and Britain, have received major media coverage and tourism bosses are wary of their negative impact.
However, crimes against women from Asian countries have received noticeably less attention. This latest case was largely ignored.
The attack echoes that of a 25-year-old Japanese woman who was gang-raped in Gaya in 2010.
