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Five sent to judicial custody in Pushkar rape case

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Pushkar : Five persons arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a Japanese woman were today remanded in judicial custody by a local court here.

Four of them were arrested last night and produced in the court of Magistrate Kishen Lal Choudhary, while the fifth was arrested this afternoon and brought before the judge.

The court remanded all of them in judicial custody till April 24. The identification parade was yet not held and is likely to be decided by the Magistrate tomorrow.

The arrest of the five followed the questioning of the Japanese woman in Ajmer yesterday after she alleged that she had been raped and robbed of Rs 54,000 after being drugged by Babloo on April 2.

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