Government of India has asked the Maldivian Government to investigate and find justice for the Indian teacher who was raped in Alif Dhaalu Dhangethi.
Indian news agency The Times of India reported that the Indian Government has taken up the issue to the Maldivian Government as serious matter and that officials from the Indian High Commission in Maldives have met with the acting Minister of Gender Mariyam Shakeela, asking that justice be sought for the victim.
Reports came from Alif Dhaalu Dhangethi yesterday that some people had broken into a house rented by an Indian woman teaching in the island and that the woman had been raped. Police said that they are currently investigating the matter.
A person from Dhangethi who spoke to Sun yesterday said that the Indian woman was working in the island to teach computer classes organized by a company called CITM, and that some people had gone into her house, which was located a well-populated area, and that the people with whom she shared the house were not home at the time when she was raped.
The man also said that in addition to raping her, the people had stolen the woman’s money and computer. He also added that robberies had become more common in the island for the previous two to three days, and that the police have been powerless to stop them.