{"id":31122,"date":"2017-11-05T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:01:43","slug":"german-beaten-ignoring-greeting-sonbhadra-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/german-beaten-ignoring-greeting-sonbhadra-railway-station\/","title":{"rendered":"UP: German beaten up for ignoring greeting at Sonbhadra railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Accused blamed German for hitting him when he greeted him &#8220;Welcome to India&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A German tourist was allegedly assaulted by a man at Robertsganj Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh&#8217; Sonbhadra district after he refused to acknowledge the latter&#8217;s greetings on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Police have arrested the accused, identified as Aman Yadav, an electrician from Bihar, and began investigation in the case. The incident took place when German couple was waiting for their train at the station.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A German national has been beaten up at Sonbhadra railway station. Police have arrested the accused, investigation underway <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6PE1EXEKjc\">pic.twitter.com\/6PE1EXEKjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/926995811405201409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The German national Holger Eric got down at Robertsganj Railway Station on his way to Agori \u00a0Fort. But at the station, he was beaten up by a man named Aman Yadav, media reported. However, Yadav blamed Eric for hitting him when he greeted him &#8220;Welcome to India&#8221;. He added that the German national also spit on him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am innocent, the German national punched me when i said &#8216;welcome to India&#8217; to him. He even spit on me: Aman Yadav,arrested accused <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PrcO2gudIw\">pic.twitter.com\/PrcO2gudIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/927003400050372608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The German tourist, while speaking to media persons at the police station, said that Supreme Court of India respects \u201cprivacy as fundamental right\u201d and he should not be disturbed while getting FIR registered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3apnlivemumbai.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/11\/german-tourist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31127 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/s3apnlivemumbai.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/11\/german-tourist.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>This is not the first incident when a foreigner has been attacked in Uttar Pradesh. On October 22, A Swiss couple , Quentin Jeremy Clerc and Marie Droz, from Lausanne were attacked by four youths with stones and sticks in Fatehpur Sikri. During the incident Clerc had suffered skull fracture while Droz received multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p>All the accused were arrested after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had sought report from the UP Government.<\/p>\n<p>Union Minister of state for Tourism KJ Alphons had also cited that such incidents harm country\u2019s image and affects tourism industry in the state. Minister had later offered Swiss couple a free stay in 5- star hotel as &#8220;token of concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Sulkhan Singh had issued guidelines that included deployment of police personnel in plain clothes, installation of CCTV cameras, improved patrolling so as to prevent such attacks in future[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Accused blamed German for hitting him when he greeted him &#8220;Welcome to India&#8221; A German tourist was allegedly assaulted by a man at Robertsganj Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh&#8217; Sonbhadra district after he refused to acknowledge the latter&#8217;s greetings on Saturday. The Police have arrested the accused, identified as Aman Yadav, an electrician from Bihar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[44,12651,29050,830],"yst_prominent_words":[29046,4036,29045,29044,29043,13362,29042,29047,3704,5300,29049,29040,4000,15025,29048,29041,5616,27350,5260,29039],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/11\/robertsgunj-station.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->