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Indian police have arrested five men in connection with the alleged abduction and gang-rape of a 23-year-old Japanese tourist, officials said on Saturday.
The woman had filed a complaint through the Japanese consulate in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata saying she had been staying in a budget hotel in the city in November when three local men who spoke Japanese befriended her and took her to the seaside resort of Digha in the state of West Bengal.
According to Kolkata police, she said they had robbed her of 76,000 rupees ($1,200) using her ATM card, and then taken her to Bodh Gaya, a major Buddhist pilgrimage and tourist centre in the eastern state of Bihar.
There, she alleged that two more men joined them and raped her.
The incident has again turned the spotlight on the safety of women in the world's largest democracy.
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