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FIVE VILLAGERS HAVE confessed to gang-raping a Swiss tourist in central India, police said today, in an incident that has renewed focus on the rampant violence against women in the country.
The woman was on a cycling holiday with her husband in the impoverished Madhya Pradesh state when six men attacked the couple on Friday night, sexually assaulting the woman in front of her husband and robbing the pair, police said.
“We have detained five men and they have confessed to gang-raping the woman and attacking her husband,” local police official M.S. Dhodee told AFP.
The five men, who eke out a living as small-scale farmers, have been arrested on charges of rape and robbery, Dhodee said.
Police are searching for a sixth man, who was also involved in the crime, he said.
The alleged rapists live in a village near the forested area where the couple had stopped to camp for the night, while on a cycling trip to the popular tourist destination of Agra in northern India, Dhodee said.
“They were passing by, noticed the couple putting up their tent and saw an opportunity to attack and rape the woman,” he said. Her husband was tied up during the attack.
They also stole a laptop, a mobile phone and 10,000 rupees (€140) from the couple, which the police are trying to recover, added Dhodee.
After the attack, the rape victim, aged about 40, and her husband, reported to be around 30, stopped a motorcyclist who took them to the nearest police station, said SonntagsBlick, a Swiss German-language newspaper.
She underwent a medical examination at a local hospital before leaving for the Indian capital Delhi, police said.
“The victim and her husband have left for Delhi, since there was no need for her to stay in hospital here,” another local police official U.C. Shadangi told AFP.
Shadangi said that police were in touch with Swiss embassy officials, who declined to comment to AFP about the case.
The Swiss foreign ministry in Bern released a statement on Saturday expressing deep shock at the “tragic incident”.
The couple arrived in Mumbai last month after visiting Iran and began a cycling holiday across India, making their way to Orchha, a popular foreign tourist haunt in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, Shadangi said.
The attack comes just three months after thousands took to the streets in nationwide protests following the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi.
The victim, a physiotherapy student died from internal injuries after being savagely assaulted by six men. One of her alleged attackers was found dead in his prison cell in New Delhi on Monday.
Police suspect he hanged himself, but his family says he was murdered. The government has since opened an investigation into his death.
India’s government is facing heavy pressure to step up efforts to protect women after the deadly gang-rape in the capital last December.
Under a new bill approved by India’s cabinet last week, rapists face a minimum 20-year jail term and the death penalty if the victim dies from injuries or is left in a persistent vegetative state.
- © AFP, 2013
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Why anyone would want to go public after winning the lotto is beyond me.
Agreed and fair play to them waiting it out. There is obviously press camped around there. Id leave it till around day 60 in which case id fake a reason to resign from work and have my passport in hand arrive at airport decide then and there where I shall go :) just go with the wind and ill be back in a few years. That’s the dream anyway just to be lost in the world but not be broke
Just in time for the scorcher weekend, how I’d give anything to be in that situation
Why anyone wants to wish any lottery winner well is beyond me.
So you’d be happy if I won 50 million.
Totally deluded.
That’s like being happy for O’Brien and the robbing bankers and builders.
Some made more then this the past decade.
Are you happy they are spending your tax millions
Of course you are. !!!
Probably waiting for the Medical Card application to go through first.
lmao,
they’re waiting for the bus pass too and the invalidity pension, which is not means tested.
Good one begrudgy!! I nearly fell off my chair laughing at that. We probably have a few on the island with the neck to do it too.
I heard of a guy – a small farmer – who won €45k in Winning Streak last year. Apparently he has been plagued by begging letters ever since. For €45k!
Yep! Thats the reality of it i’m afraid! Imagine the amount of begging letters for €94 million!! Its too much if you ask me! Why not let 94 people each win 1 million. A lot of lives could be changed that way.
lucy,
That makes far too much sense.
You also don’t want the IRA knocking on your door looking for 10% now.
I still hope it’s claimed, we don’t win it that often!
My uncle had similar experiences’s when he won £23 and 9shillings on RTE’s Quick Silver
Lucy no where near the numbers would play therefore revenue would be down and smaller amounts of people.
Whats right is not always commercially viable
Cos they didn’t pick the right numbers Lucy, that’s why it’s called a lottery. I hate when people say that’s too much money to win they wouldnt want that much. If you won what you consider is too much then keep what you consider enough and give rest away
i hope they knock on your door for being a tosser
I’ve been meaning to collect the cheque but I’m just too busy with work at the moment.
I’ll collect it for you. Bring the ticket into work with you tomorrow, I’ll pick it up and nip down to Abbey Street for you, and away I go!
That would be great Brian. I’m swamped here in work. I can trust you right?
Completely!! I’ll even lodge it into my own account, so you can be sure it’s safe. Much more secure than carrying around those big cardboard cheques, yeah?
wish it was me , :(
its thursday €9.40 would even be nice
come back in 81 days please.
i don’t want to see this everyday for the next 81 days.
The most sickening part of this is the winner is losing €7,500 in interest for every day they don’t collect.
They have 94million why wud dey be worried about 7500
That’s my point, they have so much money €7,500/day is peanuts to them.
That 7.5 k could be given to those who need it …
Probably died from an overdose of champagne and cocaine..
lmao,
whoever finds the body will be one lucky fcuker.
the guard will be literally saying “nothing to see here, move along” as he shoves the ticket into his sock.
Waking Ned.
I just hope they are good people and best of luck to them.
How long does a cheque for €94m take to clear these days??
Imagine going into the bank saying when that’s cleared, I’ll have it all in €5 notes !!!
Delighted they claimed it and also Fair play for not going public. Enjoy it
Why are you delighted? And why fair play?
I don’t know them but if I did would be green with envy.
Would not hate them. But most definitely would not wish them well.
But then again I am a human.
Cop on.
81 days to find that damn ticket it’s around here somewhere
I put it in a safe place so I wouldn’t loose it
*lose :)
It was me and whoever gives me a red thumb gets nothing!!!!
That’s it……you eleven get €50,000 each!!!
I but a ticket every week for the Euro and Irish Lotto and I believe I will win one day.Its called positive thinking.
Hope you do Denise
The lottery is also known as the stupidity tax
I always thought you had to go public if you won the euromillions… Must be an urban legend?
Where was the tickets sold?
If I won ;
I would tell no one initially -including the other half and the kids.
I would fly immediately to Switzerland and open an account (can’t trust Irish bank staff not to talk) , lodge the lot and take a credit card, an atm card and €1m in cash back home.
Then tell the kids I have made some money in business and tell the other half that we won half of what we did actually win.
Finally agree how much to give the siblings and parents (11 in total) and hopefully they would agree to keep schtum
Not something you want to loose…
Dear Y’All.
Statistically speaking, your chances of winning ‘The Lotto’ are not significantly increased by playing it.
Think about that for a second.
Goodnight.
You’re not great at stats are you? What are your chances of winning it if you don’t play the lotto?
Chances of winning the euromillions if not played is 0%
Chances of winning the euromillions if played is 0.000000858134861% generally known as zero.
I’m not kidding, the chances are 1 in 116,531,800
Dearest Tommy, you are clearly not capable of comprehending the concept – I did advise you to think about it for a second, but you have not. Keep paying that poor tax.
So statistically insignificant. Thank you Darragh.
Some Muldoon will just invest it…
Them muck savages are tighter than a ducks hole
Obviously talking from experience there Robin. Tell us, please, how tight exactly is a duck’s hole?
Who really gives a shit where the ticket was bought and who has won.!
I only heard about it today and could not care less.
I am healthy. My kids are healthy and happy.
Money make life easier but to much of it only buys luxury.
A Bentley instead of an Audi (Both still get you from A to B)
A fancy Rolex displaying the same time as a watch from the pound shop.
Imagine going on holiday to Spain for two years. You’d get bored with that pretty quick.
Your friends now only like you for you money. (and have you pay for all the dinners and drinks)
A 10 bedroom house when you only need 4/5 bedrooms.
A Swimming pool when you don’ t even like swimming (just because it looks cool)
Cloths costing 5000 Euro (and even those are made from cotton!)
I was not born to spend my entire life thinking about money.
Be happy with who you are and what you have simply can not be bought for any amount.
And most of the time people who have obtained wealth not via hard work are often all to eager to show off how much they have (or so they think)
I’d rather have on my grave stone: He found a cure for cancer rather then he won 94 million in the lotto.
You’re a right tool.
I’ve been a bit busy in work this week but if I can get a lunch break ill nip in and collect it next week. Sure it ill be grand.
According to Rick O’Shea they have in the last 2 hrs
Who is Rick 0 Shea ?.
he bumped into me last week….
A four year old child was killed on the roads yesterday….is money really what makes people happy?? Reading my kids a bed time story is worth mother than any 94 million…money brings temporary happiness…good luck to that person who won spend it wisely
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Gosh 94 million is a crazy amount to be responsible for. I just hope it brings the winner happiness. Was reading a blog article on https://www.worldlotteryclub.com/ about how 70% of winners end up losing everything within a few years. I really think there should be a proper support network for anyone who wins a life changing amount of money to ensure they can cope with it. On the other hand if it was too regulated I suppose we’d all complain that some corporation was interfering with the winners millions and become distrustful of them.
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