3 Nigerians arrested in India for gang raping 19-yr-old girl

hree Nigerians were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old woman from Imphal in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar area. Two of the woman's friends were also arrested for their involvement in the incident.

According to Delhi Police, the rape victim girl who hails from Manipur is a student of Punjab University, and had come to Delhi for vacation at his brother's room at Vasant Kunj's Kishangarh area. As her brother, who works in a private company lives along with two other male friends; he had arranged to stay her with his female friend from Manipur. 

It also reported that the two married women, who work in a beauty spa, took the victim out in pretext of shopping at around 7.40pm at Uttam Nagar and they entered into a house where the three Nigerians are already staying. The accused Nigerians raped her after long physical harassment, said the victim in her statement.

However, she managed to escape from the place and contacted her brother. They told the story to officials of Uttam Nagar police station and lodge a complaint. Police have identified one of the accused Nigerian has been identified as Nwachorudo Charles Echejohn (33). However, police is trying to find out the details of the other two Nigerians and their stay in the National capital. In her complaint, the girl said she was studying at a university in Jalandhar and had come to Delhi for a short trip.

She befriended Rhiya and Sheela, the two women involved during the trip as they were also from Manipur. On Tuesday, Rhiya and Sheela suggested they all go partying in the night, to which she agreed. "Around 9pm, they took her to their Nigerian friend's house in Uttam Nagar, where two others joined them. The girl alleged that soon after the men started misbehaving with her and started touching her inappropriately.

When she resisted, they overpowered her and then gang-raped her. Somehow, she managed to escape and reached the police station," said a senior police official. A case has been registered under relevant sections against all the five accused. The Nigerians were arrested from west Delhi, while the girls were nabbed from Kishangarh area.