KOLKATA, India (AP) — Police said today they have arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman who volunteered at a children’s charity in the Indian city of Kolkata.
The suspect, a local businessman, was to be produced in court later today, according to a police official who declined to be identified because he wasn’t authorized to speak to reporters.
The man attended a party the woman hosted to celebrate her 21st birthday on Friday, the official said. The woman told police that she later went to the man’s house, where she drank a cup of tea and passed out, and then was raped.
Few other details were immediately available.
The reported assault comes as other attacks against women have heightened concerns about sexual violence in India.
On Tuesday, police reported that an American tourist was gang-raped in the northern Indian resort town of Manali. Three men picked her up in a truck while she was hitchhiking, then drove to a secluded spot and raped her, police officer Sher Singh said.
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