A British woman who traveled to India to see a man she had met online was raped by him in a hotel in Delhi before he was molested by another man in the elevator of the building, according to the police.
The tourist, 36, stayed this week in the Mahipalpur area of the Indian capital after being friends with a man, only identified as Kailash, on Instagram.
The London -based woman had been on holiday to Maharashtra and Goa when she asked the man to join her, reports Indian Media.
The suspect said he couldn't travel, so she went to where he lived in Delhi to meet him and checked in a hotel on Tuesday.
He went to her visits there, but a heated argument was said to arise when the woman realized that the man was trying to act inappropriate against her.
The victim claimed that she was brutally attacked and raped by the accused.
She escaped the room to go to the reception of the hotel to get help, at which point another man, under the pretext to help her, reportedly molested her in the hotel lift.
Both men have been arrested for rape and molesting, according to the Indian police, who have started an investigation into the horrible events.
File image shows hotels in the Mahipalpur area of New Delhi, where the British woman was staying when she was reportedly attacked
'A man was arrested for accusation of rape with a British woman in a Mahipalpur hotel in Delhi. His accomplice was arrested for accusation of molestering, “the Delhi police said in a statement.
'The woman who was friends with the [first] Man via social media had come to Delhi from the UK to meet him. '
In a statement to The Independent, a police officer in South West Delhi clarified: 'This is not a gang of rape. These are two separate incidents of sexual abuse. The suspects are not related to each other. '
Local authorities have informed the British High Commission and, according to reports, helped the British subject. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been contacted for comment.
It comes less than a week after a 27-year-old Israeli tourist and her Indian homestay operator were gang tricking during a star tour in Karnataka.
The two women had visited the Sanapur, close to the UNESCO world heritage, with three male tourists when they were attacked by three attackers last Thursday.
The female tourists were raped while an Indian man in their group was killed in the horrible attack, with two other tourists, including an American man, escaped their lives.
A police officer speaks on the spot on his mobile phone while looking for the male travelers who were pushed into the canal by three men, accused of the income of two women
Reports of sexual attacks on women are increasingly occurring in India, where the police registered 31,516 rape cases in 2022, an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
It is thought that the true figure can still be higher, still due to the stigma of sexual violence.
Cases of rape and sexual violence have been examined since the gang rape and killing a 23-year-old student in a New Delhi bus in 2012.
The attack led to mass protests and led to legislators to create rapid courts for rape cases and stricter penalties.
The rape law was amended in 2013 to criminalize stalking and voyeurism, and to lower the age at which a person can be tried as an adult aged 18 to 16.
In 2018 the government approved The use of the death penalty for people who have been convicted of raping children under the age of 12.
High -profile matters involving foreign visitors have drawn international attention to the issue.
Last year, in a video that was later removed, a Spanish tourist said his wife was raped in North India, while an Indian-American woman said she had been raped in a hotel in New Delhi. In 2022 a British tourist was raped for her partner in Goa.
