CHENNAI: A day after six people were detained for allegedly drugging and raping a 21-year-old
Russian woman in a service apartment in
Tiruvannamalai in
Tamil Nadu, principal district judge G Magizhenthi on Wednesday sought a report from police on the list of foreigners staying and overstaying in and around the temple town.
The judge, who visited the woman in the hospital on Tuesday evening, said financial aid would be extended to the victim under the provision of the victim compensation fund.
Calling the alleged
rape “shame” to the state, the judge said the district police should expedite the inquiry and arrest all the accused in the case.
He sought a report on foreigners staying in the district, particularly in Tiruvannamalai town and surrounding areas, and number cases of overstay. The judge asked authorities to take measures to send overstaying foreigners back to their respective countries.
Sources in the district legal service authority said that police failed in enforcing the Foreigner’s Act. The local administration and the district administration had also failed to check the illegal functioning of apartments as guest houses for foreigners without obtaining proper permission from the concerned departments, they said.
Meanwhile, an official from the Russian consulate general in Chennai reached the Tiruvannamalai Government Hospital to visit the woman.
Police said the tourist was yet to give her statement and she was maintaining silence. “She was stable, but not opening her eyes. We are hoping that she will talk today. The official from the consulate has also talking to her. We will take further course of action based on her statement,” Tiruvannamalai superintendent of police R Ponni told TOI.
The police had picked nearly 15 people for inquiry in connection with the case, she said and added that the Russian tourist arrived in Mumbai on July 3 on a tourist visa valid till August 8. She reached Tiruvannamalai on July 10.
An official from the Russian consulate general visited the rape victim.
