Kolkata: Four accused of raping Japanese student produced in court

Four men, accused of abducting and raping a 23-year-old Japanese student, were produced in a city court here on Tuesday.

One of the accused Mohammed Wasim, who worked in a museum as a sweeper, was arrested at a bus stop at Kolkata's Park Street earlier in the day.

Wasim along with three others, identified as Mohammad Shabir Khan, Wasim Khan and Shahid Iqbal, has been sent to jail custody till January 09.

The woman had filed a complaint through the Japanese consulate in Kolkata saying she had been staying in a budget hotel in the city in November when three local men who spoke Japanese befriended her and took her to the seaside resort of Digha in West Bengal.

According to Kolkata police, she said they had robbed her of 76,000 rupees using her ATM card, and then taken her to Bodh Gaya, in Bihar where she alleged that two more men joined them and raped her.