Police in a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi, have
arrested two men in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old girl
on Saturday.
The girl
was travelling in an auto rickshaw in Ghaziabad when at least two of her
co-passengers allegedly raped her, a senior police official said.Police say
they are looking for a third suspect.The gang rape and murder of a student on a
Delhi bus in December sparked protests across India.Reports in the Indian media
said that the teenage girl had taken an auto rickshaw home on Monday evening
near a busy mall in Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. Details of what happened next are
still sketchy.
The girl
apparently told the police that she was gagged, raped, robbed and thrown out of
the vehicle near a highway. Last week, there were violent protests in Delhi
after reports that a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a school.
The principal and four employees of the municipal school have been suspended in
connection with the case. There has also been angry debate in the parliament
over last month's rape and murder of three sisters, aged six to 11, in the
state of Maharashtra.
No-one
has been arrested and opposition MPs have criticised the slow pace of the
investigation. The issue of sexual violence against women and girls has been
under intense scrutiny in India after the rape and murder of a student on a
Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests. Six people have been charged
over the case which shocked the nation. Five of them are on trial in a
specially convened fast-track court and they face the death penalty. The sixth
accused, a minor, is being tried in a juvenile court. He could be sentenced to
three years in a reform facility. All the six accused have pleaded not guilty.
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