

Ajmer: A Spanish couple was intercepted and manhandled by local goons at a tourist spot in Ajmer on Monday evening. The couple, who also has American citizenship, came to Pushkar and took a bike on rent for Ajaypal, a tourist spot. The woman was molested with her clothes torn off while the male tourist's head was injured with a stone. The victims were so terrified that even after long counselling and assurance, they did not agree to file a complaint with the police.

Police are trying to identify the miscreants. Superintendent of police Nitin Deep Bulgam, ASP Avinash Kumar and other officials were in JLN Hospital to take stock of the situation.

According to sources, two couples, aged between 35 to 40 years, came to Pushkar two days ago and checked in a hotel. On Monday afternoon, they took two bikes on rent at Pushkar to explore the Aravalli hills and other tourist places.

They went to Ajaypal, situated on the back side of the Taragarh hills where they found five youths on other motorcycles. One of the couples left the place for other destination while other remained on the spot, sources said.

"At about 5 pm, all five youths abused and intimidated them," said the victim to police.

Two of the youths also tried to molest the woman and tried to snatch her bag and tore her clothes. The remaining tried to snatch the bag which she was holding.

"There were two cameras and other things with changed currency in the bag," said the victim to police.

A male companion tried to fight against these goons and they threw a stone towards him which landed on his head and he started bleeding.

The youths ran away and she called her hotel owner Mukesh on her mobile phone. Mukesh came to the spot and took the couple to a private hospital at Pushkar road. A blanket was offered to the woman and local people came forward to help them.

Injured went under CT scan to know about the head injuries. "The woman was so terrified that she was shaking in presence of police officials.

Superintendent of police Nitin Deep Bulgam said that they tried to assure the couple first to make them normal and counsel to register the report. "We are still trying to get the complaint," said SP.

Meanwhile, attempts are also underway to get the FIR registered through a third party. According to police, it is necessary to have an FIR to frame charges which could even be attempt to rape against the accused.



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