'Thousands quizzed' over Delhi rape

Vivek Gogia: "We are in touch with the victim"

About 6,000 men have been questioned in the Indian capital, Delhi, in connection with the rape of a Swiss diplomat, police say.

A police spokesman told the BBC that 16 of the men were under particular scrutiny.

Their movements at the time of the attack on the woman were being checked and their fingerprints compared with those found at the scene of the crime.

The attack, which came after the diplomat had attended a screening at an international film festival last Tuesday, left Delhi in shock.

The woman has now left the country but police have emailed her photographs of those who have been questioned.

Fingerprints are being matched with those sets lifted from the cigarette lighter and the victim's car Deputy police commissioner Vivek Gogia Fear stalks Delhi women

"We are in touch with the victim," deputy police commissioner Vivek Gogia told journalists.

"We had earlier emailed photographs of 10 suspects and over the weekend we sent pictures of six more suspects," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Last week the police released computer-generated images of the suspects made from evidence given by the diplomat.

Second attack

Police say two men pushed her into her car last Tuesday 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.

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

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

The filmmaker fought off her attackers and is recovering in hospital from head injuries.