An Indian court Friday convicted three men over the February rape of a young Japanese tourist and sentenced them each to 20 years in jail, the public prosecutor said. The assault on the 20-year-old woman in the western state of Rajasthan was the latest in a string of high-profile sex attacks that have highlighted high levels of violence against women in the world's second most populous country.
The woman told police that one of those convicted, Ajit Singh Choudhary, met her outside her hotel in Jaipur and offered to show her around on his motorbike, before drugging and raping her in a secluded area of the historic city. The court in the Rajasthani capital convicted three of the nine defendants of gang rape, while another three were convicted of harbouring an offender and sentenced to two years in jail.