Attack on Swiss couple: After Swaraj intervenes, case filed against 4 people

New Delhi/Lucknow, October 26
Following the intervention of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the brutal attack on a Swiss tourist couple in Fatehpur Sikri on October 21 the Uttar Pradesh government has registered a case against four unidentified people.
According to unconfirmed reports, one person has been arrested in this connection.
Taking cognisance of the media reports the union minister has sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government.
A couple from Lausanne, Switzerland, were harassed, chased and attacked with stones and sticks by a group of ruffians in Fatehpur Sikri leaving them with bruises and fractures.
“My officers will reach them in the hospital,” said Swaraj’s tweet.
Instead of helping the badly injured couple crying for help passersby took photos and videos denting India’s, especially UP’s image as a safe tourist destination.
The horrifying news has hit the headlines just when CM Yogi Adityanath is visiting Agra to promote the city and its monuments, including the Taj, as a major tourist destination.
According to 24-year old Swiss Quentin Jeremy Clerc, he and his girlfriend Marie Droz were leisurely walking near the Fatehpur Sikri railway station a day after their arrival in Agra when a group of ruffians started stalking them.
First, they passed comments which the couple did not understand, then they became physical and tried to stop them insisting on taking selfies with Droz.
When the couple objected the hooligans chased them, pelted them with stones and even thrashed them with sticks leaving Droz with a fractured left arm and Clerc with a clot in the brain and a fractured skull.
The couple is at present under treatment in a Delhi hospital.
Perhaps what was more shocking was the insensitive attitude of the passersby. Instead of coming to the couple’s rescue they were reportedly taking photos and videos of the bloodied couple lying on the ground.