A taxi driver accused of raping and threatening a Japanese vacationer near a prominent Indian tourist destination has been arrested, police said Saturday. She was instead taken to an isolated location in a nearby forest and sexually assaulted in the driver’s car, police said. “She said she surrendered to him after the driver told her (that) if she resisted the rape attempt, he would call his friends to gang-rape her,” regional police chief Shalini Agnihotri told AFP. Campaigners say the true figure is likely to be much higher given the social stigma around victims of sexual crimes. Several foreign tourists have been sexually assaulted in Manali in recent years.

Source: Punch June 02, 2018 16:07 UTC