Another reason not to go

India has never been on Rico's bucket list, but Kartikay Mehrotra and Andrew MacAskill have a Bloomberg article about the latest reason to take it off yours:

The Delhi police planned to arrest eight suspects in connection with the gang rape of a Danish tourist in a central part of India’s capital, according to Alok Kumar, a deputy police commissioner. Police released fifteen men detained earlier who provided information about the whereabouts of the suspects, Kumar said by phone. The 51-year-old woman told police she was raped at knife-point by a group of men between 5 pm and 8 pm yesterday in the Paharganj neighborhood (photo), which contains many hotels and is close to tourist sites. “We are in the process of executing a number of raids throughout the city,” Kumar said. “We expect to have a breakthrough within the hour.”
The case adds to safety concerns that have deterred women from visiting the world’s second-most populous nation, where the number of reported rapes jumped more than fifty percent over the past decade. Indian leaders have struggled to alter male attitudes toward women, even after the gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi in December of 2012 triggered an international uproar.
“The message being sent to the world is that, if you are a woman, you shouldn’t come to India alone,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research, a women’s advocacy group in New Delhi. “It is a matter of great, great concern that this is happening, and we’re not doing enough to stop these attacks.”
Danish Ambassador Freddy Svane confirmed in an email that one of his country’s citizens was involved in a rape case. The embassy in New Delhi had no further comments, he said.
A woman was raped in India every twenty minutes on average in 2012, according to the most recent National Crime Records Bureau data, statistics that police say reflect increased confidence among females to report attacks. The country saw a 35 percent drop in foreign female tourist arrivals in the first three months of last year, according to a study published in April by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India.
In March of 2013, a Swiss woman was gang raped while camping with her husband, while a British woman jumped out of the window of her hotel room in Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, to flee an assault by staff. In June of 2013, an American woman was gang raped while hitchhiking back to her hotel in the Himalayas.
The Danish tourist was attacked yesterday on her final night in India as she returned from the city’s main shopping district and approached a group of men asking for directions, according to Pushkar Singh, the manager at the Hotel Amax Inn, where she was staying. The men robbed her, beat her, and then took turns to rape her, he said. “What part of Delhi is safe now?” Singh said in an interview. “There’s a problem of education among a portion of the population, and that’s rotting the city.” The hotel had seen a decline in tourists since the rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi prompted a national outcry and made international headlines, Singh said. The Danish tourist was due to fly home at 10 am today after spending two nights at his hotel, he said.
Paharganj’s budget hotels, bars, and restaurants are popular with backpackers. It is less than a kilometer from Delhi’s main railway station and a short drive from tourist sites such as the India Gate, the Mughal-era Red Fort, and the presidential palace.

Rico says the Indians get all torqued when we deport a woman who abused her maid, but shrugs off this sort of thing...