On January 14, a 51-year-old woman tourist from Denmark was confined,
beaten and gang-raped at knife point by eight perpetrators at Central Delhi’s
Paharganj on Tuesday evening, police said. The woman was also robbed of
her valuables. None of the accused has been arrested till Wednesday night
while police claimed to have identified all the perpetrators.
The incident took place between 5 pm to 7.45 pm on Tuesday
night at a secluded place situated behind Railway Officers Club, close to the
New Delhi railway station.
The victim came to India on January 1, on a tourist visa
alone to visit various historical monuments. After visiting Agra in Uttar
Pradesh, she returned to the national capital on January 13 morning and
checked-in a room for two nights at Hotel Amax Inn. As most of the
monuments were closed on Monday, she visited Connaught Place and India Gate
area.
On Tuesday afternoon, she went to visit the National Museum.
While she was walking down to the hotel with the help of a travel map, she lost
her way and reached near B block, Connaught Place, where she a group
youngsters.
The victim asked a youngster for correct direction of the
hotel. He tricked her and directed to take State Entry Road straightaway. She
started walking down the road and found at the end an isolated place surrounded
by bushes.
In the meantime, two youngsters were following her ever
since she enquired. When saw no way out of the road, she turned only to find
herself being overpowered by the youths on knife point.
The accused robbed her of valuables including Rs 3,000, 750
euro, I-Pod and cell phone. The rest of youngsters in the meantime reached at
the spot. They dragged her to the bushes and eight of perpetrators took turn to
rape her, said a senior police officer adding that the victim resisted them but
she was beaten up.
The perpetrators then fled from the spot threatening her of
dire consequences. The injured and traumatised victim managed to come out of
the road and took auto rickshaw to her hotel and rang her friends and family in
Denmark from the hotel at around 8 pm. She, thereafter, called up embassy and
then informed hotel manager identified as Pushkar who made a call to police
control room at 9: 30 pm.
Immediately, a team comprising senior police officers
reached the spot and met the victim at her hotel, where they recorded her
statement. A police officer said that the woman was ‘highly traumatised’ when
she reached the police station. “She was bruised on her face and neck,” said
the officer.
A case of gang rape, robbery and kidnapping has been
registered at with the Paharganj police station against the accused. The
Danish Embassy has also been informed by the police in this regard.
Where the incident took place, the Railway Officer Club’s
employees said that there were uprooting a tent on at the time the gang rape
took place and they have no idea the perpetrators were.
“The Lohri festival was celebrated last night. The labours
were inside the premises. It is difficult to believe that a group of people
took the woman and raped her,” the employee added.
The Joint Commissioner of Police (Central), Sandeep Goel
told Mail Today, “All the perpetrators who are around seven to eight in
numbers, have been identified. Several dedicated teams of senior police
officers have been formed, pressed into service and the accused would be landed
in police net soon.”
The woman had refused to be medically examined and that the
police were trying to gather other evidence. “The victim was supposed to fly to
her hometown on Wednesday and she had left the hotel,” the hotel manager.
In the meantime investigating sleuths have detained around
32 people who are interrogated at Paharganj police station in the presence of
senior police officers. The investigators said that the victim has promised to
cooperate with the probe agency whenever required.
Foreigners raped in Delhi
January 4, 2014: A Polish woman was drugged and raped
as she travelled to Delhi with her two-year-daughter. The woman, 33, and her
daughter were travelling in a taxi from the city of Mathura where they live to
New Delhi when she was allegedly raped by the driver. The woman woke up on a
bench outside a Nizamuddin railway station in New Delhi with her toddler crying
by her side, the officer said.
June 19, 2013 : Two sisters, hailing from Uzbekistan,
have alleged that they were gangraped for several months by unknown men after
being kept in confinement by a woman from their own country. The girls, who
came to Delhi in January, claimed they were promised jobs by the Uzbek woman.
They stayed in a hotel in Paharganj where they met the woman. The woman took
the sisters to a guest house in Vasant Kunj where they were allegedly raped
after they were served with soft drinks laced with sedatives, police said
quoting the girls.
February 7, 2013: A 23-year-old national from
China was raped by her Indian friend at Hauz Khas in south Delhi on Monday
night, after the two had attended a party. The accused, Tariq Sheikh, 28, a management
graduate who works as a party organizer, was arrested. The victim, who
works as a trainee executive for a firm in Gurgaon, told the police that she
and Sheikh were at a party in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi where he offered her
more drinks and forced himself on her.
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