A Polish woman was drugged and raped as she traveled to the Indian capital with her two-year-daughter, police said yesterday, the latest in a string of sexual attacks on women in the country.
The woman, 33, and her daughter were traveling in a taxi from the city of Mathura where they live to New Delhi on Thursday when she was allegedly raped by the driver.
The driver drugged the woman at some point during the 150km journey and she was attacked after she passed out, Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said.
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 rape,” he said.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, reported the incident to police who are searching for the driver, 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.
The incident comes barely a week after India marked the first anniversary of the death of a student who was gang raped on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the nation.
The gang rape triggered massive protests over the levels of violence against women, but in the last 12 months there have been several more cases of local and foreign woman being attacked.
A judge last month sentenced three Nepalese men to 20 years in jail for the gang rape of a US tourist in June last year in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Six men were sentenced to life in prison in July last year for the gang rape and robbery of a 39-year-old Swiss woman cyclist who had been holidaying in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
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