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. UP Police maintained that no attack was made on the French national. The woman along with a group of French tourists and her relatives was visiting the Lakhania Dari Waterfall here when the incident took place. A police spokesperson said, "No attack was made on any French national, but a French national sustained injuries as he tried to intervene in an altercation between two group of Indians." The French national sustained injuries on his hand, police said.

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