Two men in southern India were arrested in connection with the rape of gangs of two women and a drowning death of a man, the official said on Saturday.
The Israeli tourist and her host in their homeland were a star with three male passengers – Americans and two Indians – in the town of Koppal, South Karnataka on Thursday night, police official Ram L. Arasiddi said.
According to an initial investigation, three motorcycle men approached them, looking for money. After the arguments, three men pushed men’s passengers into a nearby water channel and sexually attacked two women, Arasiddi said.
He said that one of Indian tourists drowned and his body was recovered on Saturday, adding that the American and other Indian swam safely.
Koppal is about 217 miles away from Bengaluru, Indian launch and technology.
Arasiddi said the police founded a special investigative team that arrested two of the three suspects on Saturday. They were investigated on suspicion of attempted murder, rape and gang robbery, he said.
Sexual attacks on women They became familiar with India, where police recorded 31,516 cases of rape in 2022, which is a 20% increase compared to 2021, according to the National Criminal Record. This is an average of about 90 rape a day, CBS News reported earlierAnd it is believed that the real figure is far greater because of the stigma surrounding sexual violence and lack of victims’ faith in the police.
Rape and sexual violence were in the spotlight from the brutal rape of gang 2012 and the murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus. The attack encouraged huge protests and inspired the legislators to order the creation of rapid courts dedicated to cases of rape and fasteners.
AND The rape law has been amended In 2013, criminalization of persecution and voyeurism and lowering age at which a person can be judged as an adult from 18 to 16. Government in 2018 approved the death penalty For people convicted of rape of children under the age of 12.
Despite strict laws, it is rarely over a few weeks without applying for another brutal sexual attack.
High cases involving foreign visitors have attracted international attention to this question. The man who killed and raped the Irish tourist at the 2017 hotel declared guilty in 2025. and sentenced to life in prison. Last year, in a video that was later deleted and Said the Spanish tourist His wife was raped in northern India, while an Indian-American woman said she was raped at a hotel in New Delhi. In 2022, a British tourist was raped in front of his partner in Goi.
In the second significant case, doctors in hospitals across India went on strike After the trainee was raped and killed in August 2024. The police volunteer was declared guilty of a crimebut avoid the death penaltyEarlier, CBS News reported.
