Israeli tourist raped by two men in Manali
shimla — A 25-year-old Israeli woman has allegedly been raped by two men in the popular northern Indian Himalayan resort town of Manali, senior local police officers said on Monday.
The woman has told police she was attacked early on Sunday morning after flagging down what she thought was a taxi and asking for a lift to a nearby town, Superintendent of Police Padam Chand said.
Police on Monday recovered the car in which an Israeli woman was allegedly raped and detained two suspects for questioning. “The car, in which the 25-year-old woman was offered a lift and allegedly raped at a secluded place near Manali, has been recovered from Kullu and two persons have been detained for questioning,” Chand said.
“There were six people in the car and two of the occupants raped her she alleged,” Chand said. The woman had been trying to reunite with friends who had already left for the nearby town of Keylong after they all arrived in Manali a few days earlier.
“The Israeli embassy has been informed,” Chand said.
The woman was being treated in hospital after she reported the attack, which took place at about 3am, at the Manali police station later on Sunday. “She is being shifted on Monday to a bigger hospital in Mandi town to carry out a proper medical examination,” Gandhi Ram, another police officer in Manali, said by phone. India hiked punishments for rapists as part of an overhaul of sexual assault laws in the wake of a fatal gang-rape in 2012 that shone a global spotlight on frightening levels of violence against women in India. But rape and sexual assault remain commonplace, with incidents hitting the headlines on an almost daily basis.An American woman was raped in Manali in 2013 by three men when she took a ride with them in a truck. In 2012 an Australian woman was also raped in the same area, located in the picturesque Kullu Valley of HP. —
The car, in which the 25-year-old woman was offered a lift and allegedly raped at a secluded place near Manali, has been recovered from Kullu and two persons have been detained for questioning” Superintendent of Police Padam Chand