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Mumbai: Party with 'friends' ends in gang rape of foreign student

Party with 'friends' ends in gang rape of foreign student
Divyesh Singh & Poornima SwaminathanWednesday, April 15, 2009 19:27 IST

Mumbai: A night-out turned into a nightmare for an Indian-American student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Deonar, when she was gang-raped by six acquaintances at an Andheri flat on Saturday night. The police suspect they had spiked her drink before raping her.

All the accused study in various colleges in the city and knew the victim through a common friend, according to the police, who have registered a case of rape under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. None of them is a native of Mumbai.

The 23-year-old, who came to India from the US in October 2008 and enrolled for a course in gender studies and development in January 2009, stays at the institute's hostel at Deonar.

Deputy commissioner of police Dilip Sawant said: "She approached the Trombay police station late on Tuesday and reported that six people had raped her. We registered her complaint and, acting on details provided by her, picked up three of the six accused for questioning."

The remaining three have reportedly fled to Jamshedpur. A police team will be sent soon to nab them, Sawant said. Police said one of them is a Qatari national while the other two hail from Guwahati in Assam.

The victim was sent for medical examination. The report is awaited.

The victim had met three of the accused at the birthday party of a female batchmate in February, said an officer who was part of the police team that recorded her statement. She met the other three for the first time on the night of April 11.

According to Sawant, the victim said in her complaint that she went for a night-out with five of the accused and her batchmate on Saturday evening. The group imbibed alcohol at a bar called Café XO near Govandi, where they partied till 10:30pm.

While the accused were drinking and smoking, the victim too had a bottle of beer after the accused pressed her, she told the police.

Soon after, the victim's batchmate returned to the TISS campus as she had a flight to catch to Darjeeling the next morning. The five youths then asked the victim to join them at another pub in Andheri, but instead took her to the house of the sixth accused.

That's where her nightmare began. Quoting her statement, an officer said the accused began molesting her. Scared, she locked herself up in the bathroom. She called up several people from her cell phone, but to no avail.

She came out of the bathroom after she started feeling dizzy. Her head was throbbing with pain. "She passed out soon after," the officer said.

"When she awoke the next morning, she found herself lying naked," said the officer. The accused were sleeping around her. That's when she realised that she had been raped, she said.

Fifteen minutes later, when she had gathered herself and began to leave, two of the accused gave her a contraceptive pill. She popped it and left the house, the officer said.
Sawant said the police would ask the victim why she took two days to lodge her complaint.

Meanwhile, TISS director S Parasuraman denied that any of the accused were students of the institute. He said the institute would safeguard the victim's identity zealously. "We do not wish to traumatise her further," he said. "She is our student and it's our responsibility to provide her legal support and counselling. Some of my colleagues were with her at the police station till 4am on Wednesday."

Parasuraman said the institute has informed the American consulate and the woman's parents.
 
This is such as shamefull thing to happen:tsk:.Just keep drinking and taking drugs in the name of celebration and this kind of thing are going to happen. Bcoz some lesson are learned the hard way :frown:
 
This is such as shamefull thing to happen:tsk:.Just keep drinking and taking drugs in the name of celebration and this kind of thing are going to happen. Bcoz some lesson are learned the hard way :frown:

And If the muslim would do this in any non muslim country then he would be called "A terrorist".
 
And If the muslim would do this in any non muslim country then he would be called "A terrorist".

Where in the hack Muslim (religion) came in this thread. Just try and think beyond Religion please :disagree:
 
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i know it's very shameful and I am very much disturbed as a ex student of TISS, thankfully it was officially conformed that all bastards involved in this shameful deed where not from the campus. I had personally met that poor girl and we are making it sure that pigs are being penalized for there sin.
 
Fifteen minutes later, when she had gathered herself and began to leave, two of the accused gave her a contraceptive pill. She popped it and left the house, the officer said.
Sawant said the police would ask the victim why she took two days to lodge her complaint.

Something tells me something is not right about this story !!
 
And If the muslim would do this in any non muslim country then he would be called "A terrorist".

And how do you knoe the accused are not muslim? One of them is said to be qatari national.

Also, can you give me examples of muslims accused of rape being charged for terrorism?

Not everything is linked to religion you know!
 

what are u doing...... how is this these two incidents related????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
what are u doing...... how is this these two incidents related????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Boss, any two events happening in india are related, and typically related to hindu brahmins :)

Ignore such nonsense. Its best that abuse cases become public, rather than getting supressed forever in the name of 'family honor' and 'fake pride'.
 

So now if there a crime commited in India, India becomes a crime capital? Why are we bringing petty domestic issue on a defence forum? Its not as if rapes dont happen aywhere else in the world, whats with turning a domestic news into India bashing?
Dig into news in your country, you yourself are going to find several instances of rape. Maybe even we need to begin calling Pakistan a "country unsafe for women then". Complete BS!.

And If the muslim would do this in any non muslim country then he would be called "A terrorist".

Wow dude, you blow me away.
 
Discussion going totally the wrong way!!!!

What are you suppose to discuss in this? It is a tragic incident and media is doing a good job else police would have managed to make a mockery of the crime once again.
But I highly doubt this is the reason this news was posted in here....
 
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