New Delhi - The Indian police Friday arrested two men in connection with the rape of a 9-year-old Russian girl in the seaside resort of Goa. Police had named the two suspects, both in their early 30s, who worked at in an industrial estate not far from Arambol beach where the incident happened on Tuesday.
While one of the men engaged her in conversation, the other took the girl towards the water and assaulted her, the mother said in her complaint to the police.
Anil Raghuvanshi was picked up in Goa while he was trying to board a bus to Bangalore, while Aman Bharadwaj was arrested in Mumbai, Ravinder Yadav, deputy inspector general of Goa Police said.
Yadav said according to the complaint, Raghuvanshi distracted the mother, while Bharadwaj assaulted the girl.
There have been several assaults on foreigners, especially Russians, in the popular Indian resort in recent years.
A 25-year-old Russian woman was raped by a Goan politician in December 2009.
The mutilated body of a 19-year-old Russian girl was found on the railway tracks in the Thivim area near Goa's capital Panaji in May 2009.
In February 2008, the body of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling from Britain was found on Anjuna beach.
The Russian embassy has issued a statement demanding the severest punishment for the 9-year-old's rapist and warned that if such crimes targeting its citizens were not checked, it would ask Russian tourists to stop visiting Goa.
Goa's police has come under flak in the past from rights groups and the media for failing to act speedily on rape charges.
