Five men convicted of raping Danish tourist who got lost looking for her hotel

A group of men who attacked and raped a 51-year-old woman at knife-point as she tried to find her way back to her hotel have been convicted. 

 
They set upon the Danish tourist, robbed her and took turns to assault her after she got lost in Delhi, India, on January 14 2014.
Nine people were accused of the crime. One has since died and three will be tried in a youth court.
The woman, who is anonymous to protect her identity, was travelling on her own after visiting the Taj Mahal, reports AFP.

She approached the group of men to ask for directions towards her accommodation in a part of the city popular with backpackers.

Indian members of a social organisation Our City Our Right hold posters (Picture: Getty)

But the prosecution said Mahendra alias Ganja, 27, Mohd Raja, 23, Raju, 24, Arjun, 22, Raju Chakka, 23 led the victim to a deserted area near New Delhi Railway Station. ‘All accused are held guilty for all offences,’ India Times reports the judge said.

In recent years there has been outcry against high profile cases of rape in India.
In perhaps the most notorious, 23-year-old student Jyoti Singh died after she was raped and beaten with an iron bar on a public bus by a gang of men.
Responding to nationwide protests, the Indian government introduced tougher laws making the minimum punishment for gang rape 20 years imprisonment.

Source: Metro.co.uk