The Spanish couple attacked in India received a check worth one million rupees (approximately) this Monday $12,000) through compensation after the woman was gang raped while her husband was severely beaten.
“We have given compensation of one million rupees (about $12,000) to the husband. We are conducting a thorough investigation and will try to ensure a speedy trial and conviction,” Anjaneyulu Dodde, deputy commissioner of Dumka district, told the media. in the northern state of Jharkhand, where the attack occurred.
The delivery of the compensation took place in the Government’s “safe house” to which the two travellers, she of Brazilian origin and Spanish citizen, and the Spanish citizen were transferred on Saturday night.
“Many thanks to the Jharkhand government, the police are investigating very quickly, three or four people have been arrested,” said the husband of the raped woman, receiving Dodde’s request for forgiveness for the brutal attack today.
The couple, who have been traveling for several months to visit Asian countries, had set up a tent near a police station in Dumka district to spend the night last Friday when a group of men attacked them around midnight, several sources said officials. he told EFE.
The three arrested for the sexual assault against a Spanish tourist. Both remain in Dumka as investigations continue and police continue to search for those involved in the attack and gang rape, estimated to number between eight and ten people.
Until now They only confirmed the arrest of three of the people involved which, according to the police, they admitted the factsalthough the authorities did not specify which crimes.
Both testified in a local court yesterday as a preliminary step for the court to ratify the arrests and formalize criminal charges.
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The attack occurred while she was crossing the Asian country with her husband.
The law establishes severe penalties for rape, most of which do not include the possibility of bail. A rape under the Indian Penal Code is punishable with not less than 10 years in prison, while a gang rape can be punished with up to life imprisonment.
The two travelers intend to leave India on Tuesday on a motorbike and travel to Nepal from where they will fly to Spain.
Gang rape in India: four more suspects wanted
Police are looking for four more suspects, local media reported Monday. In total seven men allegedly attacked the woman.
“We have formed a team to find out the whereabouts of the suspects,” police official Pitamber Singh Kherwar told AFP. “We will stop them soon,” he promised.
According to the National Criminal Records Bureau, an average of 90 rapes were reported per day in 2022 in India.
However, many of these attacks go unreported, due to the stigma victims often face and also due to a lack of trust in police work.
Convictions are rarely handed down and many cases end up stuck in the country’s overcrowded justice system.
Source: Clarin
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