Police question 10 in Delhi rape

Police are checking links to an attack on a film-maker

Police in the Indian capital Delhi say they are questioning 10 people over the rape of a Swiss diplomat.

The men were taken in just hours after police released computer-generated images of the suspects in a case that has shocked the capital.

The images were made from evidence given by the diplomat, who has now returned to Switzerland.

She was attacked after she attended a film screening at a international film festival on Tuesday.

Police say two men pushed her into her car and then one of them raped her.

They say the same men could have carried out an attack on an Indian filmmaker in the same car park that night.

Protest rally

Photographs of the 10 men being questioned have been sent to the Swiss victim for identification.

Police are comparing the men's fingerprints to those in the victim's car and on a pink cigarette lighter that was left behind.

Delhi in shock

The victim has also told police she bit the rapist on the arm.

Investigators are checking possible links to the attack on the film-maker, Akanksha Joshi, an hour later.

Both women reported their attackers had threatened to fire six bullets into them, though neither saw a gun.

Ms Joshi fought off her attackers and is recovering in hospital from head injuries.

On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani summoned the city police commissioner, RS Gupta, and Lieutenant-Governor Vijay Kapoor for talks on the case.

Meanwhile, a protest rally was organised in front of police headquarters in Delhi by several women's organisations angry at the increasing number of rapes in the capital.

The general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, Saba Farooqi, said there was a need to change the legal procedures in rape cases.

The chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dixit, met Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam and Mr Advani on Friday, along with members of the country's women's commission, to ask the central government to take concrete steps on security in the capital.