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Indian police question 6,000 men over rape of Swiss dpl NEW DELHI, Tuesday (AFP) About 6,000 men have been questioned in connection with the rape of a Swiss diplomat in the Indian capital last week and around 16 of them are still being held, police said. "We have spoken to about 6,000 people and subjected 100 of them to intensive interrogation," deputy commissioner Vivek Gogia said. "There are about 15 to 16 men with us who are still under the scanner," he said. "We are verifying their movements at the time of the attack and their fingerprints are being matched with those sets lifted from the cigarette lighter and the victim's car." The lighter was found in the car of the 36-year-old woman, who worked in the consular section of the Swiss embassy, following her abduction and rape in her car on Tuesday. Police told AFP that detectives had e-mailed photographs of 16 suspects to the diplomat, who is now back in Switzerland, for possible identification. Thirty minutes after she was assaulted, an Indian film-maker at the same site was also attacked in similar circumstances but she escaped rape, saying later she had wounded one of the attackers in the hand. The attacks came 10 days after a college student was gangraped in a New Delhi joggers' park, allegedly by four soldiers of the elite presidential guard. |
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