South-African Model Gang-Raped in Mumbai, India
NDTV Correspondent
Mumbai, December
31
A 27-year-old South African model, who had come to Indias glamour capital in September to make a career in Bollywood, was allegedly gangraped by two people in a city hotel.
A 27-year-old South African model, who had come to Indias glamour capital in September to make a career in Bollywood, was allegedly gangraped by two people in a city hotel.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Shashikant Shinde today said a case of rape under section 376/34 of IPC has been registered against two people he declined to identify.
However, sources in the Vile Parle police station said the South African national identified the accused as Rahul and Aditya.
The complainant said the accused laced her drink with some drug when she went to the toilet in Hotel Bawa International, adding when she became groggy they took her in a car to an isolated location and gangraped her on Wednesday.
Mr Shinde said police have collected vital information about the two accused from the hotel staff and the owner and they would be arrested soon.
Daughter of a South African business tycoon, the woman, who had come to India in September this year, was staying at an apartment in Lokhandwala in Andheri (West).
Date rape?
The model says two men she befriended at the hotel's pub drugged her.
The woman claims she was taken to another hotel where she was assaulted with a belt and raped.
The owner of Bawa International Hotel is allegedly involved in the incident, but argues that all such allegations are baseless since the rape did not take place on the premises of the hotel.
"The FIR does not mention that anyone from the hotel management is in any way involved in the gangrape," said Karan Bawar, Owner, Bawa International.
The model had reportedly been in search of work ever since she came to India in September 2005. She is reported to have met her alleged rapists at the party.
The men, after raping her, dropped her at her Lokhandwala residence, police sources said.
Medical tests on the woman have confirmed rape, the sources added. UNI
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