Eight persons were today arrested for allegedly beating up and molesting a woman from Varanasi and leaving a French national injured when he tried to intervene
He said the woman, a resident of Varanasi, was molested by some persons and was also beaten up. "The vehicle by which she had come here carried about half a dozen French tourists," he said. The woman later filed a complaint with the police, based on which the eight persons were arrested, the official added. The spokesperson said that yesterday the woman in her police complaint had alleged that nearly a dozen persons molested her and beat her. She said her relatives too were beaten up by the men.
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