The Indian police arrested three men on Thursday in connection with the gang-rape of an American woman in the Indian tourist town of Manali earlier this week.
Police officer Vinod Dhawan told media that the three men were arrested on suspicion of offering the 30-year- old woman a lift in their truck as she was returning to her guest house after visiting a friend in the nearby village and gang-raping her after taking her to a secluded spot.
The Indian police officer said that the three men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested on Thursday somewhere near a town, 540 kilometers (335 miles) north of New Delhi.
Police in the town were questioning the three men and other details were not available as of now.
India has been in the media limelight recently for the increasing cases of rapes in the country. Recently, the whole nation was in an uproar over the fatal gang rape of an Indian college student in New Delhi last December. The student was gang-raped by six men and later died in a Singapore hospital.
Following the fatal gang-rape in December, a Swiss woman was gang-raped in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and in the same month, a British woman jumped out of her hotel room in Uttar Pradesh state to escape from being raped.
Rape cases in the Indian capital city of New Delhi is not an uncommon and following a Chinese woman rape case last year, Chinese media labeled the Indian capital as "rape capital."
According to the Indian National Crime Records, a woman in India gets rape after every twenty minutes.
