An American woman, who was allegedly gangraped in a five-star hotel in Delhi’s Connaught Place earlier this year said she was willing to come to Indian for the investigation because she found the Delhi Police had not made any progress. “I am not at all satisfied with the way the probe is going on,” the 25-year-old told PTI in an email. “The Delhi Police acknowledged the complaint filed by an NGO on my behalf on October 17, but no investigation was launched by them.”

The woman expressed concern about why the main accused – a tour guide – had not been arrested yet, even though the police had registered an FIR on the incident on December 3. “I have been reading media reports, and it seems that the police did contact the main accused over the phone,” she said, adding that the police were slow to respond to emails and that she feared that the accused had destroyed evidence, PTI reported.

She had accused the tour guide and four of his friends of raping her. She said the tour guide had drugged her for the first three to four days of her trip to India – her first tour in a foreign country – and warned her against informing anyone about the incident as he had taken videos of the act. The woman is now seeking financial help from NGOs in the US and the US Embassy in Delhi to come to India to push the investigation forward. “People had warned me [about women’s safety concerns in India] and tried to convince me not to go.”

Recalling the “nightmarish” experience, the woman said that the accused had drugged and gangraped her for several days in April, but it was only in July that she could recall details of the assault. “I would get panic attacks, nightmares and anxiety,” said the woman, who works as a teaching assistant in the United States. The NGO she had contacted approached the Delhi Police on October 5.