( CNN ) Five men have been arrested in India over the alleged rape of a Japanese tourist , police in the city of Kolkata told CNN . The men allegedly operated as a gang , targeting single , female Japanese tourists . According to Pallab Kanti Ghosh , joint police commissioner in Kolkata , the victim , a 22 year-old from Saitama , Japan , was approached on November 20 of last year by a man who spoke Japanese `` very well , '' and convinced her to accompany him and a friend to a variety of tourist spots over the following days . Two suspects were arrested from near the Buddhist pilgrimage center of Gaya in neighboring Bihar state and charged with rape , the officer said . Three other men were arrested for criminal conspiracy . The arrests were made on January 1 . `` The victim is cooperating with us in our investigation , '' he said . The victim told police that she had also been forced to remove money from her bank accounts , and that the men had also withdrawn money using her ATM card without her knowledge . The initial `` First Information Report ( FIR ) '' complaint filed with Kolkata police , obtained by CNN , focuses mainly on the extortion and theft of a sum of 76,000 rupees ( $ 1,200 ) over several incidents . The charges were later amended to include rape . The FIR mentions molestation but does not contain accusations of rape , which were added to the victim 's account during a subsequent appearance before a magistrate . Sexual assault is a high-profile problem in India , particularly following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012 . Since then , a Swiss tourist was also gang-raped while on a cycling holiday in India , and the Uber taxi service banned in the Indian capital after a driver was accused of raping a female passenger . READ MORE : No quick fix for India 's rape crisis .
Five men arrested in India over alleged rape of Japanese tourist , police say . The men allegedly operated as a gang , targeting single , female Japanese tourists . Sexual assault is high-profile problem in India , particularly after 2012 fatal gang-rape of student .