A South African woman was kidnapped and raped several times during the course of a day after her drink was apparently spiked at a nightclub in Mumbai, Die Burger newspaper reported.
According to a report carried on the News24 website, the 27-year-old woman, the daughter of a Durban businessman, arrived in India in October. She registered to study drama at a private institution and was living in a flat, reported the Indian Express.
The paper said the woman attended a function at the Bawa International Hotel on the invitation by the hotel owner last Tuesday evening. After the function she went to the Avalon nightclub in the hotel, a popular venue with models and actors. She apparently ordered a drink and asked the barman to keep an eye on it while she
went to the toilet. According to the Indian police her drink was spiked.
Police commissioner A N Roy told the Indian Express that witnesses saw her leaving the hotel with two men. Preliminary tests indicated that she had been raped.
The woman told police that she vaguely remembered being raped by the men in a car. She woke up in a third-rate hotel room on Wednesday last week but was apparently beaten by the men when she tried to escape.
They apparently repeatedly raped her during the day. On Thursday morning they dropped her off near her flat. She called friends, who took her to hospital.
Police arrested two men after checking her credit card records at the hotel. One of the men was apparently in the wine industry. Roy said the suspects had admitted the crime. – Sapa