A Swiss woman who was on a bicycle tour with her husband along central India's tourist trail was gang-raped by seven men, police said Saturday, again highlighting the issue of poor safety for females in the country.
The incident served as a reminder that neither the national outcry against rape since the deadly assault on a student in New Delhi in December nor recent government efforts to impose a tough law against sexual harassment has reduced crimes against women. On the contrary, the capital witnessed 150 rapes in the first 45 days of this year.
Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh said the 39-year-old woman and her husband were traveling by bicycle to the city of Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, the renowned 17th-century marble mausoleum.