Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Yogita Limaye reports from Delhi on another sexual violence case in India 
 
 Five men have been arrested in India charged with kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student. 
 
 Police in the eastern city of Calcutta say the assaults took place over a period of more than a month from 23 November and in at least two locations. 
 
 They say an organised gang is suspected of targeting single women tourists. 
 
 Increasing numbers of rape cases are being reported and highlighted in India, prompting widespread outrage. 
 
 Pallav Kanti Ghosh, a Calcutta police commissioner, told BBC Hindi that two of the men - said to be brothers - approached the 23-year-old victim as tourist guides after she arrived in the city and checked into a hotel in an area popular with foreign tourists. 
 
 Trafficked at Buddhist holy site 
 
 "One of the men spoke very fluent Japanese," he said. 
 
 "They said: 'We are guides and want to take you sight-seeing.' 
 
 "They took her to Digha [a beach resort in West Bengal state] on 23 November. There they sexually assaulted her and robbed her of 76,000 rupees [$1,200] using her ATM card." 
 
 She was then taken to Bodh Gaya, the holiest site of Buddhism and a major pilgrimage and tourist centre. 
 
 "There, the men handed her over to other gang members," Mr Ghosh said. 
 
 The woman was held captive for several weeks and the assaults continued, he said. 
 
 In late December she managed to reach the city of Varanasi from where she travelled to Calcutta, lodging a complaint via the Japanese consulate on 26 December. 
 
 Mr Ghosh said three of the men were arrested near Bodh Gaya and two in Calcutta. The Hindustan Times newspaper said some were held after their mobile phone calls were intercepted. 
 
 He said police were searching for other members of what he called an organised gang, several of whom are reportedly proficient in Japanese. 
 
 Sexual violence in India has been in the spotlight since a student was fatally gang-raped on a bus in Delhi two years ago. 
 
 That and other cases have prompted a domestic and international outcry. 
 
 Other foreign women targeted by gang-rapists include a Swiss cyclist assaulted in central India in 2013 and a Danish tourist attacked in Delhi a year ago. 
 
 Rape laws have been toughened in response to the crimes but correspondents say this has failed to act as a deterrent. ||||| NEW DELHI — Five men have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and rape of a Japanese woman who said she was held captive for 12 days, the Indian police said Saturday. 
 
 The young woman, who had been staying in Kolkata, said she had been lured by a man posing as a tour guide to travel to the Gaya district in the state of Bihar, the site of one of India’s holiest Buddhist temples, according to the Kolkata police. When she arrived in Gaya, two other men were waiting, she told police, saying the two held her at gunpoint and raped her. 
 
 The police said the episode occurred sometime after her arrival in Kolkata on Nov. 20 and that she had first been taken to Digha, a resort in West Bengal by men involved in the case. The Press Trust of India, a news service, quoted the police as saying that she had been forced to remove money from her bank account. 
 
 Anxiety in India over violence against women has been very high since the December 2012 gang rape of an Indian woman on a Delhi bus, an attack so brutal that she died of her injuries. 
 
 Details of the latest case, including how long the woman was reportedly held, varied widely as the police continued their investigation Saturday. It was unclear how two of the five men were involved in the case. 
 
 The police said that at least one of the five men spoke Japanese and that two were brothers. 
 
 A senior police official in Kolkata, Pallab Kanti Ghosh, said on Saturday that after being held, the woman went to the city of Varanasi, where she told a group of Japanese tourists what had happened. She then returned to Kolkata and the Japanese Consulate put her in touch with the police in late December, Mr. Ghosh said. 
 
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 It remained unclear if she had been released by the men or had escaped. ||||| Police in India arrested three people for allegedly gang-raping a 22-year-old Japanese research academic near a Buddhist pilgrimage centre in eastern India, officials said on Friday. 
 
 Police were looking for two more suspects who also allegedly kept the Japanese woman as a hostage for nearly three weeks in a village near Bodh Gaya, a town 80 miles south of Patna, the capital of Bihar state, officer Akhilesh Singh said. 
 
 The woman managed to escape on 26 December and reached her base at Kolkata, where she filed a police complaint. She has been studying life in rural India for some time, Singh said. 
 
 A Kolkata-based tourist guide had taken the Japanese woman to Bodh Gaya to show her the Buddhist pilgrimage centre where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment under a tree. He was joined by four others in keeping her in captivity and raping her, police said. 
 
 Two of the arrests were made in the area on Friday and one took place earlier this week in Kolkata, police added. 
 
 India has a long history of tolerance of sexual violence, but a series of high-profile rape cases have triggered strong public outrage in recent years, leading to tougher anti-rape laws. 
 
 India has doubled prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalised voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. 
 
 The law also makes it a crime for police officers to refuse to open cases when complaints are made. ||||| 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 15 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 p.m. and 8 p.m. yesterday in Paharganj neighborhood, 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 57 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 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 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.” 
 
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 Danish Ambassador Freddy Svane confirmed in an e-mail 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 21 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, 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, 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. 
 
 Delhi ‘Rotting’ 
 
 “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 a.m. 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 India Gate, the Mughal-era Red Fort and the presidential palace. 
 
 To contact the reporters on this story: Kartikay Mehrotra in New Delhi at kmehrotra2@bloomberg.net; Andrew MacAskill in New Delhi at amacaskill@bloomberg.net 
 
 To contact the editor responsible for this story: Daniel Ten Kate at dtenkate@bloomberg.net
– Another horrific gang-rape story is emerging out of India, this time involving a 22-year-old Japanese woman who police say was held for at least 12 days, reports the New York Times. Police have arrested five men, including two brothers, reports the BBC. Authorities say that the young academic was staying in Kolkata when a man who speaks fluent Japanese lured her away by posing as a tour guide. He and other accomplices then allegedly held her in a village near Bodh Gaya, a popular destination because of its Buddhist pilgrimage center, and repeatedly raped her, reports the Guardian. Details of the case are still coming together, and reports differ substantially. Most accounts say she eventually escaped and reached authorities in Varanasi, for example, while the Times of India says her captors put her on a bus. Some reports say she was held 12 days, some three weeks, and others (including the BBC) for more than a month. All seem to agree, though, that gangs are preying on female Japanese tourists. The men have been charged with gang rape, wrongful confinement, kidnapping, molestation, and criminal conspiracy.