 "Koppal rape case: 2 out of 3 men arrested for assaulting an Israeli woman and her Indian host")
Two men were arrested in India in connection with the alleged rape of an Israeli woman and her Indian host. The tragic incident took place on Thursday night when the Israeli woman and her homestay operator were stargazing in Koppal, Karnataka . The authorities noted that three men on a motorbike approached the women and asked for money.
Following an intense argument, the men pushed the male travellers into a canal nearby and assaulted the two women. Ram L Arasiddi, a local police official, told The Associated Press that one of the travellers had drowned, and the authorities recovered his body on Saturday. The other two men swam to safety on that very night. Koppal is about 350 kilometres away from the city of Bengaluru.
Arasiddi said police had set up a special investigation team to probe the case. The authorities have so far arrested two of the three suspects on Saturday, who are now being probed on suspicion of attempted murder, gang rape and robbery.
The plight of foreigners travelling to India
Rape and other form of s exual violence cases continue to bother the women of India. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, police across the country have recorded 31,516 rape cases in 2022, a 20 per cent increase from 2021. Following the Nirbhaya rape case, the lawmakers in India set up fast-track courts dedicated to rape cases and stiffen penalties.
The rape law in the country was amended back in 2013 to criminalise stalking and voyeurism and lower the age at which a person can be tried as an adult from 18 to 16. In 2018, the government approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of 12.
Over the years, there have been high-profile cases of foreign travellers becoming victims of sexual violence in India, which has also drawn international attention. Last year, in a now-deleted video, a Spanish tourist said his wife had been raped in northern India, while an Indian-American woman said she was raped at a hotel in Delhi. In 2022, a British tourist was raped in front of her partner in Goa.
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