The women came to India on a group tour of 25-30 people organized by a Pennsylvania based firm.
Four people arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a US national in a five-star hotel in Delhi’s Connaught Place earlier this year were sent to two-day Judicial Custody on Tuesday by a Delhi Court.
“On December 3, the Delhi police registered a case in connection with the gang-rape. The complaint was kind enough to come down to Delhi, got her statement recorded before police and court and helped in collecting evidence,” Zee News quoted Deependra Pathak, Joint Commissioner of Police, South West District.
In her statement, the 25-year-old woman said five people drugged and sexually assaulted her inside her hotel room in CP soon after she checked in. After the incident, she left India and said it was only towards the end of July that she started to remember what had happened to her.
The women came to India on a group tour of 25-30 people organized by a Pennsylvania based firm. After returning to US, she told about her ordeal. She contacted a non-profit organization in the US who in turn contacted the tour operator and the hotel but did not get any assistance from them. The organization then gave a complaint to the Delhi Police commissioner through email on October 5 and received a reply on October 17.
The accused – tourist guide Aniruddha Singh, hotel staffer Vivek, driver Om Prakash and cleaner Maqsood Khan were arrested on Monday by the Delhi police. On December 8, the tourist guide, along with his accomplices, was questioned by police after his arrival from Nepal.
Joint Commissioner added that the police would seek custody of the accused to gather further evidence and establish the identity of the fifth accused.
All four claimed they were being falsely implicated, saying the woman had travelled with them to the remaining destinations on her package tour without raising an alarm and even rated them positively in the feedback forms.