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A MAN HAS been sentenced to seven years in jail for the rape of an Irish woman in India in 2013.
The Times of India reports that 40-year-old Sujoy Mitra was convicted on Friday of the rape of the now 25-year-old woman before he was sentenced over the weekend.
The woman met the accused in a bar in Kolkata before she was drugged and taken back to his residence where she was raped.
It’s understood that the woman was in India to volunteer at the Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity.
The trial heard from a total of 23 witnesses with the Irish victim giving evidence via a video link from the Indian Embassy in Ireland.
The woman gave evidence at the embassy after defence counsel in the Indian court insisted it be delivered from an “official address”.
The decision to allow the woman to give evidence from abroad is being hailed as a landmark ruling which may allow tourists secure justice in India after travelling through.
“It can probably open a new path for foreigners to seek justice without taking the trouble of travelling,” a prosecutor said, according to the report.
The Department of Foreign Affairs provides specific travel advice to women travelling in India, saying that they should “use caution”.
“Recent sexual attacks against female visitors in tourist areas and cities show that foreign women are at risk,” the advice states.
“Women travellers often receive unwanted attention in the form of verbal and physical harassment by individuals or groups of men.”
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All those counties are cold on sunny days
Jealous
@Dave: all the comments on the travellers in Mayo are deleted and no more comments allowed. Has Trump taken over the Journal?
Nope! It’s a minefield for liberal progressives. They don’t know who to support for fear of being labeled a racist, bigot, literally Hitler etc.
Good. Most of the commenrs were disgusting and / or infantile. If you don’t like being censored, try saying something constructive instead of indulging yourself in an orgy of filth.
I hope the protesting travellers are wrapped up nice and warm in someone else’s coats
Working bigotry and xenophobia into a weather article. Impressive.
A bit of cold and they issue a warning. Christ we are soft these days.
You’d want to be careful walking up the mountain in this weather but if you’re not and slip sure you can always sue.
Once its not Dublin. Who cares.
I’m sure all the anti water protesters will be running their taps overnight to stop the pipes freezing
I think anyone is Anti Water.
*don’t
@Peter Cavey: by not paying water charges I have more money to keep background hearing on and thereby to avoid frozen pipes. I don’t need to run the taps.
A lot of people in these counties are on rural group water schemes and this pay for their water. Thus running taps would be an incredible foolish thing to do.
Twit
@Peter Cavey: I think those water meters were suppose to crack under certain frosty conditions, here’s hoping?
Up the Dubs
I’m anti water too. Hate the stuff.
Your right too. Scary fact: 100% of organisms that consume water will die.
But if you do skid on the black ice, and slide into a wall and damage your bumper, and perhaps even scratch your knee off the underside of the dash, – don’t worry, . You can sue the NRA for not salting the road, Sue the wall owner for the damage to your car, and Sue the car manufacturer for the scratch on your knee.
The judges in this banana republic are bound to pay out on one of them …
Be careful out there – sort-of.
These counties otherwise known as the Provinces of Connaught and Ulster in the Republic…just in case you aren’t sure which of the four you are situated!
Just sayin….it’s easier to name the two provinces than list every county in them!
BORING!
So more than that then?
Oh feckk.
Funny how it freezes in Cavan, Monaghan & Donegal but not in Fermanagh or Tyrone. Strange stuff this frost!
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