<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Three men were arrested today after the gang rape of a Spanish tourist on a motorbike trip through India’s remote east with her husband, local media reports said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The attack took place last night in the Dumka district of the eastern state of Jharkhand, where the couple had stopped to camp the night in a tent.</div><div><br></div><div>The woman was able to reach a police patrol van at around 11pm and was taken to hospital for treatment, police officer Pitamber Singh Kherwar told The Times of India newspaper.</div><div><br></div><div>Kherwar said police had detained three people in connection with the attack and were on the hunt for more suspects.</div><div><br></div><div>The Spanish woman is being treated at a local hospital in Dumka and an investigation is underway, reports said.</div><div><br></div><div>An average of nearly 90 rapes were reported in India every day in 2022, according to data by the national crime records bureau.</div><div><br></div><div>However, large numbers go unreported due to prevailing stigmas around victims and a lack of faith in police investigations.</div><div><br></div><div>Convictions remain rare, with cases getting stuck for years in India’s clogged-up criminal justice system.</div><div><br></div><div>The notorious gang rape and murder of an Indian student made global headlines in 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, was raped and assaulted and left for dead by five men and a teenager on a bus in New Delhi in December that year. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The horrific crime shone an international spotlight on India’s high levels of sexual violence and sparked weeks of protests, and eventually a change inthe law to introduce the death penalty for rape.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div>bnbd24/fas<br></div>