India is fast becoming notorious for r*pe, and tourists are becoming the hardest hit by the scourge.
A Polish woman was drugged and r*ped as she travelled to New Delhi with her two-year-old daughter, police have said, the latest in a string of s*xual attacks on women in the country.
The woman, 33, and her daughter were travelling in a taxi from the city of Mathura where they live to the Indian capital last Thursday when she was allegedly r*ped by the driver.
The driver drugged the woman at some point during the 150-kilometre journey and she was attacked after she passed out, Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP.
The woman woke up on a bench outside a railway station in New Delhi with her toddler crying by her side, the officer said, adding that details of the attack were still unknown.
“It is still a bit unclear, but prima facie, it seems she sat (in the taxi) voluntarily. But yes, thereafter, in the car he drugged her using some spray … medical report has confirmed r*pe,” he said.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, reported the incident to police who are searching for the driver, Mr Bhagat said.
The woman, a devotee of the Hindu god Krishna, had been living in Mathura – believed to be the birthplace of Krishna – in Uttar Pradesh state for the past three years and worked in the cloth export business, he said.
She and her daughter had been waiting on a busy road in Mathura for a taxi to take them to the capital when the driver approached.
The January 2 incident comes barely a week after India marked the first anniversary of the death of a student who was gang-r*ped on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the nation.
Source: Information Nigeria
“[katogoaward]”
