Police in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh India's say they have six people in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss tourist have been arrested.
The suspect will be presented before a magistrate on Monday, senior police official Waqar Arya told Reuters news agency.
The woman was attacked because they camped with her husband in woodland.
The couple was stopped at a village in the district of Datia on Friday while making a bike ride.
A group of men overwhelmed her husband for her gang-rape. The pair were also robbed of their valuables, police say have been recovered.
Mr Arya said the six men were from 20-25 years and belonged to a local tribe.
Twenty more people were questioned in connection with the case, told local police official SM Afzal the BBC.
The woman and her husband have left Madhya Pradesh and have reached the Swiss Embassy in New Delhi, say reports.
"A decision on the next steps ... in the interest of the two Swiss citizens will be made with them in due course," said a spokesman for the Swiss Ministry in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency.
On Sunday, a senior police official denied media reports that the suspects had confessed to their involvement in the crime.
The victim, which is reported at 39 years old, and her husband had of Orchha cycling to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, a distance of about 250 km (155 miles), when they decided to camp for the night in a wooded area.
One report brought out the victim man as saying that the Group of the men them on about 21: 30 (16: 00 GMT) had approached. Then it started and beat him with wooden sticks before tying him up and sexual mistreatment of his wife for him, he is reported to have added.
The attackers stole the few valuables, including 10,000 rupees ($ 185) and a laptop computer, before the flight in the forests.
The incident comes three months after the gang rape of a 23-year-old female student, who died of her injuries, on a bus in Delhi, that widespread protests against the treatment of women in India.
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