Police seek guide who raped Japanese student in northern India

A police search is on for the ‘guide’ who allegedly drugged and raped a Japanese student sightseeing in Northern India. The 20-year-old student attacked Sunday is the second Japanese woman raped in India in recent months. The man had met her in Jaipur and offered to act as her tour guide.

I get chills when I think of what happened to my sister, I want justice for my sister.

Sister of a Nepalese woman who was raped and murdered in Haryana.

The man later took the woman on his motorcycle to a farming village outside the city in Rajasthan state, where he raped her on the side of the road before leaving her, Jain said. Villagers who heard the woman crying helped her contact police. A medical examination confirmed the woman had been raped. Police are now searching for a man in his 20s and are certain the person who committed the rape is from Jaipur.

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