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   From: democrats@destroy.america.org   
      
   NEW DELHI –  An American woman was gang-raped Tuesday in the   
   northern Indian resort town of Manali, police said.   
      
   The 30-year-old woman was picked up early Tuesday morning by men   
   in a truck as she was hitchhiking back to her guest house after   
   visiting a friend, police officer Sher Singh said.   
      
   The three men in the truck then drove to a secluded spot and   
   raped her, he said. She went to police and they filed a rape   
   case.   
   No arrests had been made as of Tuesday afternoon, Singh said.   
      
   Authorities issued an alert for the three men and set up   
   roadblocks to check any trucks leaving the town, he said.   
      
   The reported rape came after a Swiss tourist was gang-raped in   
   March while on a cycling trip through rural India. Six men were   
   arrested in that attack. In a separate incident the same month,   
   a British woman traveling in northern India jumped out of the   
   third-floor window of her hotel room fearing a sexual attack   
   after the hotel's owner tried to force his way into the room.   
      
   The assaults come amid heightened concern about sexual assaults   
   in India that followed the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a   
   moving bus in New Delhi in December.   
      
   That rape sparked public protests demanding better protection   
   for women. In response, the government passed a law increasing   
   prison terms for rape and providing for the death penalty in   
   cases of rape that result in death or leave the victim in a   
   coma. It also made voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the   
   trafficking of women punishable under criminal law.   
      
       
      
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