CHENNAI/TIRUVANNAMALAI: A 21-year-old Russian woman was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a service apartment on a visit to the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai , 190km southwest of Chennai, police said on Tuesday.

Investigators detained six men for questioning after one of them took the unconscious woman to hospital on Monday and a doctor who examined her alerted police.

Tiruvannamalai Town sub-inspector J Illavarasi registered a case under IPC Section 376 (rape) and Section 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment).

“A medical report said she had bite marks on her face and hands and scratch marks on her upper body,” a district administration official said quoting a police statement. “It also confirmed sexual abuse.” Investigators have seized drugs from the apartment.

One of the six suspects told police he had accompanied the woman to the temple and ashram. “He said she invited him to the apartment on Saturday night,” a policeman said. The accused said they had consensual sex that night and the following day and claims that he found her unconscious when he returned to the apartment on Monday evening after going out to buy vegetables and fruits for her.”

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