Dumka (Jharkhand): A foreign national from Spain was allegedly gang-raped in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, the police said on Saturday.
The incident occurred at Kurumahat in the Hansdiha police station area, around 300 km from the state capital Ranchi, on Friday night when a tourist couple from Spain was spending the night at a makeshift tent.
“On Friday night, a tourist couple was spending the night at a makeshift tent in Kurumahat in the Hansdiha police station area when the incident took place,” Jarmundi Sub Divisional Police Officer Santosh Kumar told PTI.
Further details, however, will be provided later,” he said. Meanwhile, another official, on condition of anonymity, said seven to eight local youths were involved in the incident.
PTI reported that seven to eight men were involved in the incident. As of now, three culprits have been arrested while the police are searching for the rest of them.
The victim has been taken to the hospital where she is undergoing medical treatment.
The couple arrived in Dumka from Bangladesh on a two-wheeler and were on their way to Bihar and later to Nepal.
Neither Dumka Deputy Commissioner A. Dodde nor Superintendent of Police Pitamber Singh Kherwar responded to repeated calls from PTI.
The alleged crime took place on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Jharkhand and had expressed serious concern over law and order and extortion in the state.
Further details are awaited.
