Spanish woman gang-raped in Jharkhand, 3 arrested
Dumka (Jharkhand) (PTI): A woman from Spain was allegedly gang-raped in Jharkhand's Dumka district, police said on Saturday.
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident and a manhunt has been launched to nab the remaining accused, they said.
The incident took place at Kurumahat in Hansdiha police station area, around 300 km from state capital Ranchi, on Friday night when a tourist couple from Spain was spending the night at a makeshift tent.
The couple had reached Dumka from Bangladesh on a two-wheeler and was en route to Bihar and then Nepal.
"Superintendent of Police Pitamber Singh Kherwar himself went to the spot last night and is still camping there. Investigation is underway, and forensic teams have visited the spot.
"Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident and a manhunt has been launched to nab the remaining accused. An SIT (special investigation team) will be formed. All necessary legal action will be taken," a senior official told PTI on condition of anonymity.
The survivor has been admitted to a hospital, the official added.
Deputy Inspector General, Santhal Pargana, Sanjeev Kumar said the SP is probing the incident.
"I have asked the SP to issue a media statement in this regard," Kumar told PTI.
Meanwhile, another official, on condition of anonymity, said seven to eight local youths were involved in the incident.
The official said a massive manhunt is on to nab the culprits.
Incidentally, the alleged crime occurred on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Jharkhand and had expressed serious concerns over deteriorating law and order and extortion in the state.
Hitting out at the ruling dispensation in the state, the prime minister had alleged in a rally that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is neck-deep in corruption and its appeasement policies have resulted in infiltration.
"JMM stands for 'Jam Kar Khao'. Appeasement is on the rise, extortion is at its peak... law and order has taken a back seat," the PM had said.
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Kashmir issue is bilateral between India and Pakistan: MEA
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI): India on Tuesday said its long-standing position on Kashmir has been that it is a bilateral issue between New Delhi and Islamabad and there is no change of this stand.
The assertion came against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump's renewed offer to mediate on the Kashmir issue.
"We have a longstanding national position that any issues pertaining to the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir have to be addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally," external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
"That stated policy has not changed. As you are aware, the outstanding matter is the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan," he said.
Jaiswal was responding to a question on Trump's offer.
On speculation on nuclear war by Trump, Jaiswal said the military action was entirely in the conventional domain.
"There were some reports that Pakistan's National Command Authority will meet on May 10. But this was later denied by them. Pakistan foreign minister has himself denied the nuclear angle on record," Jaiswal said.
"As you know, India has a firm stance that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail or allow cross-border terrorism to be conducted invoking it," he said.
"In conversations with various countries, we also cautioned that their subscribing to such scenarios could hurt them in their own region," he added.
Jaiswal said India will keep Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures support for cross-border terrorism.
Pakistan nurtured terrorism on an industrial scale, he said.
Terrorist infrastructure that India destroyed under Operation Sindoor were responsible not only for the deaths of Indians but of many other innocents around world, he said.
