Another attack on foreign tourist! Argentina woman slapped, robbed at Varanasi's Assi Ghat

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VARANASI: In the latest incident of crime against foreign tourists, an Argentina national was allegedly manhandled and robbed by three youths at the famous Assi Ghat in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. 

After the incident, the victim registered a police complaint against three unknown accused. 

According to reports, the woman was meditating at the bank of River Ganga when the incident happened. The woman had been living in Bhadini area for over a decade and has been associated with a NGO.

In the complaint, the victim claimed that seeing her alone, the three accused approached her and robbed her money. When she resisted, one of them even slapped her and went away with the money. 

The victim had approached the police and the complaint was filed only a day later. 

On December 14, a Japanese tourist Akihiro Tanaka was also drugged and robed by a fake tourist guide. 

Tanaka had arrived Varanasi from Agra by a bus. He came into contact with a fake tourist guide, who allegedly drugged him and robbed his bag containing visa, passport, 50000 Japanese yen, Rs 2000 (Indian currency) and ATM cards of Japanese bank. The case was reported with Sigra police.

On December 10, at least 11 foreign tourists were beaten up and molested by locals in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. All the tourists were natives of France. 

It happened after few boys began to harass the Indian female who was accompanied with the French tourists' group. When the foreign nationals intervened, they were roughed up. The boys returned with their friends after the initial ruckus to further attack the group.

When the victims reached the Mirzapur police station to lodge a complaint, they were made to wait for hours to get the police officers register their complaints.

In another incident, a German national was beaten up by a man at a railway station in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh after he unintentionally ignored the accused's greetings. 

Also, a Swiss couple was thrashed at Fatehpur Sikri on October 26.