Today, Sunday, Indian police opened an investigation into allegations of a woman being gang-raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan, after she was isolated alone for one night as part of the general isolation measures applied in the country due to the Corona virus.

The accident occurred last week, when the victim - who works for a daily wage - requested shelter in a police station, after she had traveled several kilometers, during which she lost the way to her village. 

Because of the lack of an isolation center, the police provided her with shelter in a school building overnight, where she claimed that three men raped her.

"The arrest of the three men who raped the woman inside the school and put them in prison," said Barth Sharma, deputy chief of police in the district of Sawal Madhopur in Rajasthan state - who is investigating the case.

Sharma added that the woman was sent to a local health isolation facility to be examined for fear of infection with Covid-19 disease, caused by the Coronavirus.

The general closure measures announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month to contain the spread of the virus have prompted tens of thousands of people who lost their jobs in cities to walk days to reach their villages.  

It is reported that federal data indicates that an average rape occurs every 20 minutes in India, despite the stringent laws in force in the country.