The Indian police have arrested six men accused of gang rape a woman who suffered in the north of the country at the hands of seven men, including the driver of the bus he was traveling, said on Sunday an official source. The latest arrest took place on Saturday night and joins those of the five people arrested within hours of the incident, which occurred the night Friday, when the victim was returning by bus overnight from a visit to her parents' house in the northern area of Punjab. A police official Gurdaspur district, Singh said Janjit are near stop alsothe seventh accused of rape.According to the account of the victim, quoted by local media, the vehicle's driver and another employee of the carrier refused to make the mandatory stop and went to a secluded place , where they were joined by five other men. After consummating the assault, the defendants stopped the woman near his home in the town of Ghukla. The woman, 29, first went to his house and then went to the police station to lodge a complaint.
A shocked country
This case comes when public opinion of the Asian giant is shocked by a young student who died two weeks ago after being raped by six men while traveling on a bus in New Delhi. That aggression and subsequent death of the victim triggered a wave of street protests in the Indian capital that resulted in heavy fighting with security forces. The National Crime Record revealed in 2011 that every 20 minutes a woman is raped in India, but in only one out of four cases the rapist is convicted, because, according to analysts, the "corruption" in the body police.
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