Thaindian News

Melbourne, Oct 22 (IANS) Australian police will consult Indian authorities in an effort to trace two men who were accused in a “vicious” rape in Melbourne earlier this month but fled to India before being questioned.

The pair whom police want to question for physically and sexually assaulting a woman in Melbourne Oct 3 fled the country last Sunday and returned to India, Australian news agency AAP reported quoting Victoria police.

“Police will liaise with Indian authorities in relation to the investigation,” a police spokeswoman said Friday.

The report said sexual crimes squad detectives were told a man forced a 36-year-old woman into a silver car carrying another man on Dandenong Road in Oakleigh in Melbourne’s southeast Oct 3 early morning.

She was driven to a location where she was physically and sexually assaulted. The woman passed out and later found herself partially clothed and bleeding on North Road.

The police released video footage of one of the men allegedly involved in the attack visiting a petrol station. The car’s bonnet, which bore a distinctive pattern, was later found abandoned.

Detective acting sergeant Sean Martin said the attack was vicious in the sense that the woman was punched in the face and eye, suffering an abrasion, bruising and bleeding as well as being sexually assaulted.