The Indian Police confirmed this Sunday that there are now four people arrested for the group rape of a Spanish tourist last Friday in the Indian state of Jharkhand, in the northern part of the country.
The woman, of Brazilian origin with Spanish citizenship, and her husband, also Spanish, were on vacation taking a motorcycle tour, diplomatic sources confirmed.
The director general of the state Police, Ajay Kumar Singh, has confirmed to the Indian Express newspaper that four people have already been arrested and that the seven accused of the rape have been identified and are in the process of being searched and captured by a special investigation team. .
For his part, and in statements to the same medium, the superintendent of Dumka Police, Pitamber Kherwar, limited himself to indicating that the statements of all those arrested are being recorded” without giving more details about their situation.
The attack occurred in the Dumka district of Jharkhand, more than 1,200 kilometers from New Delhi, near the border with Bangladesh.
According to the authorities, the woman and her husband had set up a tent in the Dumka district, a remote area in the state of Jharkhand, to spend the night on Friday, when a group of men attacked them while they were sleeping. .
The husband has claimed that his wife has been raped by seven men while they were threatened with death inside their tent.
“They attacked us in the store, they beat us, they put a knife to my throat saying that they were going to kill us, and seven men raped her,” confirmed the man, also Spanish, in a video recording from the hospital where they receive treatment. The recording has been removed from their social networks at the direction of the police.
His partner, who accompanies him in the recording, with blows all over his face, has indicated that they have also been robbed by the men who assaulted her, although he assures: “we had very little, their real motive was to rape me.”
“It is a condemnable incident and the police are taking appropriate action. The culprits will not be spared,” Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, the regional minister of Jharkhand state, told the press.
The Spanish embassy in India has contacted the authorities and has sent consular personnel to the region.
About five years ago, the couple began a journey to go around the world on a motorcycle, which they are posting about on social media. The victim has more than 190,000 followers on Instagram. According to details from several sources consulted by EFE, the couple traveled from Spain to make a trip from Pakistan, then to Bangladesh, India and finally Nepal.
