Thiruvananthapuram:
Five days after an IT professional was raped at a fancy resort in Kerala, two men who worked with a pest control company have been arrested.
Here are the latest developments:
The 44-year-old woman, who is from Bangalore, had travelled with colleagues for an official visit to the resort in Poovar, on the outskirts of the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram.
The alleged rape took place at the Poovar Island resort, a star category property in the backwaters, where the woman had reportedly come with 28 colleagues for an office tour.
Cops say the two suspects worked for a contractor that supplied pest control services to the resort.
On Thursday night, the two accused entered the woman's hotel room and pried the latch loose. They returned at 2.30 am and attacked the woman, who fought back and managed to grab a beaded necklace worn by one of the men.
That helped the police to identify the suspects from photographs of employees that were supplied by the resort's management.
Cops claim the men who have been arrested have nail marks as the woman scratched them, hoping to break free.
The management of the Poovar Island Resort told NDTV that "the onus of checks is on the contracted company, which provides services to nearly 40 resorts across Kerala."
The Kerala Women's Commission team had been following the case and says that it's concerned about security arrangements at the cluster of resorts coming up on Kerala's beaches.
In this case, the womens' panel says the resort did not have security cameras and the rooms did not have multiple latches or bolts.
The 15-acre property was manned by just seven guards, the women's commission said.
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