Indian police said they had arrested four men on Friday in connection with the alleged kidnap and gang rape of a Nigerian woman in a moving car in New Delhi.

The woman, police said, was kidnapped on Thursday evening from outside the same mall in south Delhi where, in late 2012, another woman had spent the evening before she was gang-raped on a moving bus in a case that horrified the world. She later died of her injuries from the attack.

Rajan Bhagat, a spokesman for Delhi police, said the Nigerian woman "was taken at 8 p.m. on Thursday in a car from Saket mall by a group of men."

"We have already arrested four Indian men in the case," he said. The woman has not been named in accordance with Indian law that protects the identities of alleged victims of rape. The police spokesman declined to give further details about the alleged attack. It was not immediately possible to reach the Nigerian embassy in New Delhi for comment. The men, who are in custody and have not yet been charged with any offense, have all engaged lawyers, Mr. Bhagat said. It was not possible to reach the men or their legal representatives for comment. After the 2012 gang rape and murder of a female student in Delhi, India strengthened its laws to protect women from sexual violence and introduced harsher punishments for crimes such as rape. But a series of similar assaults on women since then in the capital and elsewhere in the country has raised questions about whether enough is being done to tackle and prevent sex crime. In December, a woman alleged she was raped by the driver of a car booked using the Uber Technologies Inc. app in Delhi. The trial in that case is ongoing.

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