The assault has the tourism industry worried.
“Such incidents will scare tourists away. As it is there is so much controversy around the Taj. Hopefully Yogi ji would do something about it,” a tourist operator said.
The arrest came hours before chief minister Yogi Adityanath reached Agra for a visit to Taj Mahal, days after he and his party colleagues tried to talk down the significance of the Mughal monument, one of most popular tourist destinations of the country and a huge money-spinner.
Fatehpur Sikri police station in-charge Pradeep Kumar said the couple was walking along a train track when locals assaulted them.
The arrested suspect is the brother of Mukul, the main accused.
Media reports said a group of four men followed the couple and tried to take selfies with Droz. Soon, the harassment turned into a full blown assault. The couple was taken to a local health centre before being shifted to Delhi.
“Initially they did not want to file a complaint and the case was made out by the police on its own,” Kumar said.
Police have been left surprised by the “unusual attack” and are not sure if it is the work of lapkas, or local goons who are known to get aggressive with tourists if they don’t part with money.
“We are busy gathering facts. It’s very unusual,” a police officer said.
Though not as popular as the Taj but Fatehpur Sikri, which was the capital of the Mughal empire between 1572 and 1585 during the reign of Emperor Akbar, gets its fair share of tourists.
In 2014, a German woman said she was molested by a hotel manager in Agra. In 2007, two Japanese tourists were gang-raped in the city.